Chris O’Dowd is penning a Sky comedy-drama starring Christina Hendricks and Paddy Considine a few Hollywood manufacturing that disturbs the peace in a fictional city in Ireland.
Small Town, Big Story has began filming on location in Ireland beneath a UK Equity contract and follows goings-on in Drumbán, a rural village of rattled misfits. When a serious Hollywood manufacturing rolls into city, a highlight is thrown on a secret that has been stored hidden because the eve of the Millennium.
Hendricks (Mad Men) is taking part in Wendy Patterson, a neighborhood woman executed good as a hot-shot tv producer, who returns to her hometown from LA with the Hollywood manufacturing in tow, whereas House of the Dragon’s Considine is native physician and pillar of the group Seamus Proctor. The present additionally stars David Rawle, who reunites with Sky’s Moone Boy creator and co-star O’Dowd. Other castmembers are Eileen Walsh (Catastrophe), Leia Murphy (Fair City), Patrick Martins (The Confessions of Frannie Langton), Evanne Kilgallon (Obituary), Andrew Bennett (The Quiet Girl), Ruth McCabe (Aisha) and David Wilmot (The Alienist).
NBCUniversal Global Distribution is procuring Small Town, Big Story, which is being produced by Colin Callender’s Playground and FilmNation Entertainment. EPs are Callender and Scott Huff for Playground, Stefanie Berk and Milan Popelka for FilmNation Entertainment, and Alex Moody for Sky Studios. Hendricks and O’Dowd are additionally execs, Liz Gill is collection producer and administrators embody O’Dowd, Catherine Morshead, Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman.
Sky can also be making big-budget scripted choices together with Julianne Moore-starrer Mary & George and a Day of the Jackal remake with Peacock that includes Eddie Redmayne.
Sky pressured that Small Town, Big Story is an Equity manufacturing and that each one solid agreements are compliant with SAG-AFTRA guidelines and situations, which had been contracted pre-strike.
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