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Andrew Haigh dirige la serie BBC e See-Saw Films The North Water

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- Colin Farrell e Jack O'Connell sono i protagonisti di questa grintosa avventura marinara, che è il secondo grande progetto televisivo di Haigh dopo Looking per HBO

Andrew Haigh dirige la serie BBC e See-Saw Films The North Water
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Acclaimed British writer-director Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete [+leggi anche:
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) will adapt and direct the four-part limited series The North Water, based on the Man Booker-longlisted novel by Ian McGuire, and produced by the UK’s See-Saw Films for BBC Two.

The series is scheduled for an autumn shoot, with the principal cast currently being locked down. This week, Jack O’Connell (Starred Up [+leggi anche:
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) in the lead roles.

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Taking place in the late 1850s, The North Water follows the story of Patrick Sumner (O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition setting off from Hull to the perilous climes of the Arctic. In his sailing party, he encounters harpooner Henry Drax (Farrell), an amoral and merciless killer. Fending off Drax’s influence, Sumner tries to cling onto his sanity, and seek redemption and survival in the Arctic wasteland. 

Moving from the horse-racing world of Lean on Pete to another animal-related tale, Haigh seems to be attempting a British spin on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Originally announced as five 60-minute episodes, the team is now producing three individual hours and one 90-minute finale.

Haigh himself says: “The novel by Ian McGuire is a darkly brilliant piece of work, propelled by a vision of the world that is both beautiful and brutal. It feels bracingly modern and is piercingly perceptive about the nature of what drives us all. I feel incredibly lucky to be given the chance to bring this story to the screen and very privileged to be doing so with the BBC.”

See-Saw Films (which has made similar auteur-driven TV, such as Top of the Lake and State of the Nation) is producing the project for broadcast on BBC Two. Kate Ogborn is producing alongside executive producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta, with Iain Canning and Emile Sherman for See-Saw, Niv Fichman for Canada’s Rhombus Media and Lucy Richer for the BBC.

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