Henry V star Kenneth Branagh is to play British Prime Minister in Sky drama This Sceptred Isle.The project first emerged as part of a deal between The Trip director Michael Winterbottom and Fremantle’s Passenger, run by True Detective producer Richard Brown.Sky Atlantic has now boarded the series with Branagh, who recently starred in Tenet, in the lead.
It is produced by Passenger and Michael Winterbottom’s Revolution Films.The five-part drama will chart the events surrounding the U.K.
Prime Minister, the government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.It will trace the impact on Britain from the pandemic, and the response of scientists, nurses, and doctors as they worked to contain and overcome the virus.
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