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Neil Cross And Cast Talk Hard Sun
Stopping The Countdown?
♦ The BBC’s Hard Sun started on 8 January and here’s an interview with its creator Neil Cross, producer Kate Harwood and cast members Jim Sturgess and Agnyess Deyn which took place in London at the end of November that we were in the audience for…
And here’s links through to other chats with Cross and the cast from a couple of weeks ago
It’s a terrifying reality that the British government is urgently trying to suppress. Hicks and Renko find themselves pursued by ruthless Security Service operatives, who are trying to kill them in order to keep secret the truth about the mysterious cosmic event. The pair must use every bit of their ingenuity to protect themselves and those they love.
When the classified dossier is made public the government quickly discredits the story as a hoax and fear largely subsides. But the story never entirely goes away. Hard Sun is still out there – in a thousand online forums, supported by conspiracy theorists and the dispossessed on the fringes of society and the internet. And as the murderers, the abusers, the serial killers, the cult leaders start to come out of the woodwork, it’s up to Hicks and Renko to take them down. But what does justice mean in the face of Armageddon?
The series is a six-hour drama written by internationally-acclaimed, Bafta and Emmy-nominated Neil Cross, creator of Luther.
The series is produced by Euston Films. Directors are Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones, Great Expectations, Luther), Nick Rowland (Ripper Street) and Richard Senior (Poldark, The Last Kingdom), with Hugh Warren (Thirteen, Call the Midwife) producing the series. The executive producers are Kate Harwood and Neil Cross for Euston Films and Elizabeth Kilgarriff for BBC One.
Professor Brian Cox is the series’ specialist advisor.
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