In line with The Hollywood Reporter, Braveheart alum Catherine McCormack has been tapped to star reverse Oscar winner Colin Firth in Peacock’s upcoming miniseries Lockerbie, which chronicles the aftermath of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988.
McCormack will likely be taking part in the position of Jane Swire, the spouse of Firth’s Dr. Jim Swire. As well as, Firth and McCormack may even be joined by Sam Troughton as Murray Guthrie, Mark Bonnar as Roderick McGill, Andy Nyman as Edwin Bollier, Ardalan Esmaili as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and Selwa Jghalef as Aisha. Earlier than becoming a member of Lockerbie, McCormack was final seen within the second season of Apple TV+’s spy thriller collection Sluggish Horses.
What’s Lockerbie about?
“Within the wake of the catastrophe and his daughter Flora’s dying, Dr. Jim Swire (Firth), is nominated spokesperson for the U.Okay. victims’ households, who’ve united to demand fact and justice,” reads the synopsis. “Touring throughout continents and political divides, Jim embarks on a relentless journey that not solely jeopardizes his stability, household and life, however fully overturns his belief within the justice system. As the reality shifts below Jim’s toes, his view of the world is left perpetually sullied. Exploring occasions from the catastrophe and its aftermath, Lockerbie supplies an intimate account of a person, a husband, and a father who dangers every part in reminiscence of his daughter and the unflinching pursuit of fact and justice.”
Primarily based on Swire and Peter Biddulph’s e-book, Lockerbie hails from writers David Harrower and Maryam Hamidi together with administrators Otto Bathurst and Jim Loach. It’s govt produced by Harrower, Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant, Sam Hoyle, Liz Trubridge, Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Oskar Slingerland, with Hamidi and Kaczynski serving as producers.
Manufacturing on the five-episode miniseries is at present underway. It is going to be out there for streaming on Peacock within the U.S. and on Sky within the UK, Eire, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
