Ruby Stokes, best known for playing Francesca Bridgerton in Netflix’s hit period drama Bridgerton, is set to lead the streamer’s upcoming adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co. Based on Stroud’s young adult supernatural thriller book series, Lockwood & Co. follows three teenage ghost-hunters as they fight deadly spirits in London, England. The eight-part series was written by Joe Cornish, who directed the film Attack the Block and also co-wrote Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Ant-Man. Stokes is joined by newcomers Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati in a cast that also includes Ivanno Jeremiah (Humans), Luke Treadaway (Ordeal by Innocence), Morven Christie (The Bay), Jack Bandeira (Silent Witness), Ben Crompton (Game of Thrones), Hayley Konadu (Imperfect), Rhianna Dorris (Secret Life of Boys), and Paddy Holland (Invasion). According to Deadline, Stokes will play Lucy Carlyle, a supremely psychically gifted girl who recently arrived in London.
- 3/16/2022
- TV Insider
Exclusive: Ruby Stokes, who plays Francesca Bridgerton in the hit Netflix period romp, is to lead the cast of the streamer’s latest book adaptation.
Stokes stars in Lockwood & Co., a series adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s book series.
She is joined by newcomers Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati in the Complete Fiction-produced series, which comes from Attack the Block director Joe Cornish.
The cast also includes Ivanno Jeremiah (Humans), Luke Treadaway (Ordeal by Innocence) and Morven Christie (The Bay).
Stokes plays Lucy Carlyle, newly arrived, supremely psychically gifted girl who along with Chapman’s Anthony Lockwood and Hadji-Heshmati as George Karim, run a psychic detection agency.
Set in London, where the most gifted teenage ghost-hunters venture nightly into perilous combat with deadly spirits, amidst the many corporate, adult-run agencies, one stands alone: independent of any commercial imperative or adult supervision – a tiny startup, run by a renegade trio destined...
Stokes stars in Lockwood & Co., a series adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s book series.
She is joined by newcomers Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati in the Complete Fiction-produced series, which comes from Attack the Block director Joe Cornish.
The cast also includes Ivanno Jeremiah (Humans), Luke Treadaway (Ordeal by Innocence) and Morven Christie (The Bay).
Stokes plays Lucy Carlyle, newly arrived, supremely psychically gifted girl who along with Chapman’s Anthony Lockwood and Hadji-Heshmati as George Karim, run a psychic detection agency.
Set in London, where the most gifted teenage ghost-hunters venture nightly into perilous combat with deadly spirits, amidst the many corporate, adult-run agencies, one stands alone: independent of any commercial imperative or adult supervision – a tiny startup, run by a renegade trio destined...
- 3/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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