Sky Greenlights Nuclear Bomb Thriller Series From Pulse Films
deadline.comSky has greenlit a high-stakes thriller about a nuclear bomb from Pulse Films starring Game of Thrones‘Alfie Allen. Allen is joined by Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery, What’s Love Got To Do With It) and Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale, Orange is the New Black) in Atomic, which is penned by Gregory Burke (Rebus) and directed by Shariff Korver (Temple).
Filming will commence this month in Morocco on the series, in whichMax (Allen) and Mohammed (Latif), two unlikely friends – and even less likely heroes – become swept up in a cartel’s plot to transport uranium across North Africa.
The pair face a monumental decision: save themselves or risk everything to prevent a nuclear bomb getting into the wrong hands.
Pursued by Cassie Elliott (Wiley) – a highly skilled CIA agent whose life mission is to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear bomb – along with MI6 and a network of traffickers, Max and Mohammed find themselves in the absurd situation of, for once, having to be the good guys.
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