Neil Cross joins Drama Summit for Hard Sun focus
The new 6x60' drama is produced by Euston Films for BBC1 and is distributed internationally by FremantleMedia.
Cross is a British novelist and screenwriter best known as the creator of the BBC's multi-award-winning international hit crime drama Luther, starring Idris Elba, and the international hit horror movie Mama.
Cross is the author of several novels including Always the Sun, Burial and Captured, and his bestselling memoir Heartland was shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize in 2006.
He was lead scriptwriter for the acclaimed series six and series seven of the BBC spy drama series Spooks. He is the creator and sole writer of Luther, for which he has twice been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing and which airs in more than 160 territories worldwide.
Hard Sun, a pre-apocalyptic crime drama set in contemporary London, partners detectives Elaine Renko and Robert Hicks, who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction.
Cross said: "I've had Renko and Hicks and their world rattling round my head for a while now. I'm incredibly happy that, like me, they've found their home at the BBC.
"Imagine the world you see when you look out your window... except it's been given a death sentence. This isn't science fiction, this is the real world. There's no hero to come save us, no contingency plan. We've got five years.
"What's it like, trying to keep order, trying to enforce the law in a city that, day by day, slips closer to certain destruction? How do you get up in the morning? How do you get out of bed and leave your family and go out there, putting your own life at risk? And what about the predators? What about the murderers, rapists, thieves? What about the psychopaths, religious nuts, cult leaders, serial killers? What's the point of justice in the face of Armageddon?"
Jim Sturgess (One Day, The Way Back) and Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song) play detectives Robert Hicks and Elaine Renko, partners and enemies in contemporary London, who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a collapsing world.
The case study will follow the story of the show, from creation through to finance and commissioning, and will look forward to its launch, featuring key players on that journey.
Other confirmed speakers at Content London are:
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