EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans will star in Emergency, a thriller series based on real events and set during a guerilla war that took place in 1950s Malaya.
The Nine Perfect Strangers and Fast and Furious actor will also exec produce the series. It hails from Sympatico, the co-production label established in 2023 by Richard Johns’ Argo Films and Double Vision, the Malaysian prodco headed by Min Lim.
Sympatico has brought Evans on board the project, which is in advanced development. Min Lim is at MIPCOM this week to meet with potential partners and news that Evans is attached will bring some star firepower to those talks.
The drama is based on true events during the Malayan Emergency, a guerilla war that took place between communist fighters and the Federation of Malaya and British Empire and Commonwealth.
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