Sean Bean is lending his abilities to a brand new BBC crime drama. Following his critically acclaimed stints in Time and Marriage, the actor fronts This Metropolis is Ours – an eight-part collection set and shot in Liverpool.
Directed by BAFTA award-winner, Saul Dibb (The Sixth Commandment), Sean, 65, will inhabit the position of infamous gang chief, Ronnie Phelan. Brimming with expertise, the Lord of The Rings alum is joined by a star-studded forged, which additionally contains Sheltand’s Julie Graham, Strike’s James Nelson-Joyce and That is Going to Damage’s Hannah Onslow.
© BBCIn response to the synopsis: “This Metropolis is Ours is the story of Michael (James Nelson-Joyce), a person who for all of his grownup life has been concerned in organised crime, working for his pal and the gang chief Ronnie (Sean Bean). When Ronnie begins to trace at retirement, Michael too begins to think about one other life. As a result of, for the primary time in his life, Michael is in love. For the primary time in his life, he sees past the day-to-day, he sees a future: one thing to win and one thing to lose – Diana (Hannah Onslow).
© BBC“This Metropolis is Ours is the story of Michael and Diana’s love affair, set in opposition to the disintegration of Michael’s crime gang. For years, along with Ronnie, Michael has efficiently been bringing cocaine into the Metropolis and past, straight from Columbia; however when a cargo goes lacking, he is aware of their Kingdom is beneath assault.
“This Metropolis is Ours explores what occurs when Ronnie’s son Jamie (Jack McMullen) decides he needs to inherit their kingdom and that there isn’t any longer a spot for Michael on the desk. Each Michael and Jamie have daring concepts to modernise the gang and they’ll battle for management of it. However Michael’s greatest battle will likely be to save lots of the girl he loves and the kid he has at all times wished.”
In the end, This Metropolis is Ours is “about household, and love destroyed and corrupted by ambition, pleasure and greed,” based on the BBC.
© BBCRounding out the forged, followers may count on to see Laura Aikman (Archie, Gavin & Stacey) as Rachel Duffy, Kevin Harvey (Treason, Time) as Bobby Duffy, Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Derry Women, Upgraded) as Cheryl Crawford, Mike Noble (Shardlake, The Lengthy Shadow) as Banksey, Bobby Schofield (SAS Rogue Heroes, The Suspect) as Bonehead, Darci Shaw (Judy, A Thousand Blows) as Melissa Sullivan, and Stephen Walters (Sluggish Horses, Anne) as Davy Crawford.
At the moment, a launch date is but to be decided, nonetheless, the present is predicted to land on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in spring.
