Fifty Shades star Jamie Dornan is back on the BBC and reuniting with the creator of hit series The Fall in this first-look at upcoming thriller Death and Nightingales.
The three-part adaptation of the 1992 Eugene McCabe novel of the same name takes place in 1885 over a 24-hour period in Fermanagh, Ireland, and while we’ve already been given a first-look at some rustic, period drama photos, now we’ve been given a taste of what to expect from the drama in a new trailer too.
Written and directed by Allan Cubitt, Death and Nightingales follows Beth Winters (Ann Skelly) on her 23rd birthday – the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward Dornan) and run away from her difficult life with her Protestant landowner stepfather, Billy (Matthew Rhys).
“The heartbreak of this place. Love it and hate it like no place on Earth,” Skelly’s Beth opens the trailer. “Tomorrow I leave it forever.”
The trailer includes plenty of Dornan’s wistful, longing looks as he joins Beth on her journey to control her own destiny, but with Fermanagh being a place that’s described as a world of spies, confessions and double dealing as neighbours inform on each other, forging a new path won’t be easy.
Death and Nightingales will be Dornan’s first major television role since wrapping playing Christian Grey on the big screen in Fifty Shades Freed earlier this year, and it also marks a return to the UK for actor Matthew Rhys too, after spending several years working abroad on FX’s The Americans.
“I’m thrilled to be reunited with Allan and his brilliant scripts to play such an intriguing character like Liam Ward and to return to Northern Ireland and BBC Two,” Dornan said earlier this year.
“I’ve been a huge fan of Allan Cubitt’s work for many years so I’m thrilled to have been given the chance to work on Death and Nightingales alongside Jamie and Ann and return to the BBC,” Rhys added.
Death and Nightingales is expected to premiere on BBC Two later this month.
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