Colin Farrell has signed on to star as a nasty harpooner in The North Water, a four-part period thriller, which Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete, 45 Years) will direct for the BBC.
See-Saw Films (The King's Speech, Top of the Lake) will produce the mini-series, based on Ian McGuire’s best-selling novel about a disastrous 19th-century whaling expedition.
The plot follows Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on the expedition. On board he meets Henry Drax (Farrell), the harpooner, a brutish amoral killer. Instead of escaping the horrors of his past, Sumner is forced into ...
See-Saw Films (The King's Speech, Top of the Lake) will produce the mini-series, based on Ian McGuire’s best-selling novel about a disastrous 19th-century whaling expedition.
The plot follows Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on the expedition. On board he meets Henry Drax (Farrell), the harpooner, a brutish amoral killer. Instead of escaping the horrors of his past, Sumner is forced into ...
- 2/19/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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