Natalie Dormer, Assaad Bouab to Star in Celyn Jones Thriller Series ‘Minotaur’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comK.J. Yossman “Game of Thrones” star Natalie Dormer is set to lead new Celyn Jones thriller series “Minotaur” alongside “Call My Agent’s” Assaad Bouab.
Jones writes and directs the six-part Welsh/French drama, which he created and will be produced via Mad As Birds (“The Almond and The Seahorse”), the prod-co he runs with Sean Marley.
Charles Sturridge (“Marcella”) will also direct. “Minotaur” follows Luc (Bouab), a cold-blooded killer who escapes Paris’s criminal underbelly for the more prosaic North Wales.
There he meets Angel (Dormer) who lives in a struggling community she feels she can never belong to, raising her son Joe alone. “Whilst fighting addiction, Angel gravitates towards the mysterious Luc,” reads the logline. “But as an initial attraction grows stronger and promises a fresh start for both, the past looks determined to drag Luc back into a dangerous underworld.
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