Susan Sarandon and Olivia Colman Among Six New Cast Members Attached to Star in Thriller Series ARMY OF SHADOWS

Academy Award winners Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) have joined Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon), America Ferrera (Barbie), Alex Hassell (Cowboy Bebop) and Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) in thriller series Army of Shadows, which is now filming in Paris and London.

This is a project set in a near-future authoritarian Britain from MobLand and The Day of the Jackal creator Ronan Bennett as well as Studiocanal, Two Cities Television and Channel4.

The cast also includes Leila Farzad, Luther Ford, Amara Okereke, Patrick O’Kane, Anjli Mohindra, Ed Ashley and Zoë Telford. Lisa Gunning (Black Doves)is directing the six-episode series. Inspired by Jean Pierre Melville’s 1969 film (from the Studiocanal catalog) and Joseph Kessel’s seminal book, Army of Shadows is developed and produced with the support of the Melville family and the Kessel estate.

Melville’s film and Kessel’s source material book famously dramatized the emergence of the French Resistance to the Nazi Occupation of France during World War II. The new project will show how resistance takes shape in an occupied Great Britain.

The synopsis reads: “Britain looks almost normal, but the flags are different, the news is careful, and nobody says certain things out loud anymore. But everyone can feel it. Somewhere beneath the surface of ordinary life something has gone terribly, quietly wrong.

“Out of the shadows emerges a former soldier known only as Berry, who starts building a secret resistance network. He knows one thing above all else: don’t act before you’re ready. An unlikely group starts to coalesce around him – people who’ve decided they can’t look away any longer: a soldier, a student, a radiographer, a journalist.

“Ordinary people, with ordinary lives, making an extraordinary and irreversible choice… Against them: a state with unlimited reach, a ruthless minister who’ll do whatever it takes to maintain ‘order’, and an American intelligence operative called Jessie, who is very, very good at her job.

“Army of Shadows is a tense, propulsive thriller about what resistance actually costs. If your country were occupied, what would you do?”

via: Deadline