EXCLUSIVE: Recreation of Thrones star Package Harington is producing a TV thriller described as a “very British Western,” a few hotshot who discovers his household is working a medicine racket.
Empire of Grime [working title] is being produced by Harington and Prime Boy scribe Daniel West’s Thriker Movies with Des producer New Footage. Solid is unconfirmed and Harington might but play the lead.
The eight-part thriller follows Jake, a giant identify within the large metropolis who reluctantly returns to his household farm within the Lake District for a distant cousin’s wedding ceremony.
He hasn’t been house for 15 years however following a tragic accident finds himself the unwilling head of his household, earlier than discovering the unthinkable, that his father had been working a multimillion-pound medication racket from a hidden nook of his household land.
Harington and West mentioned the present, which doesn’t have a community or distributor hooked up however has funding from its affiliate developer All3Media Worldwide, is a “very British Western, set in opposition to the Lake District’s beautiful visible backdrop.”
“The Galloways are a household preventing to outlive, wrestling with their id, trauma and the burden of inheritance, as historic traditions collide with the mores of contemporary Britain,” they added.
New Footage CEO Willow Grylls mentioned the present is “thrilling, harmful and enjoyable, however at all times with a searing emotional core.”
Harington’s Thriker manufacturing car was additionally behind BBC hit Gunpowder, which counted Harington as lead and West as EP. Harington simply wrapped Village Roadshow, Macro and BK Studios film Everlasting Return. Final week, he opened up for the primary time about how the celebrity he achieved whereas enjoying Jon Snow in HBO smash Recreation of Thrones brought on him to battle with psychological well being points and alcoholism.
All3Media-owned New Footage’ latest credit, in the meantime, embrace David Tennant-starring ITV hit Des, George Kay’s The Lengthy Shadow and BBC/Netflix musical drama sequence Champion.
Empire of Grime is developed in affiliation with All3Media Worldwide.
