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Bryan Fogel’s work was cut out for him when he chose to direct a follow-up to Icarus, his 2017 deep dive into sports doping and the elaborate system of cheating among Russian Olympians. That film closed with a cliff-hanger. Having turned whistleblower mid-film, Grigory Rodchenkov, the architect of the state-sanctioned doping program, fled Russia and was in hiding stateside. To continue to tell his story, the challenge for Fogel lay not just in the artistic shadow cast by his vividly told Oscar winner. Complicating the making of a sequel was a crucial constraint: To protect the safety of the documentary’s central figure, Fogel wouldn’t be able to interact with him directly.
The solution was to embed a single cameraperson, producer Jake Swantko, with Rodchenkov and his security team. Tracking his life on the lam for nearly five years, Icarus: The Aftermath...
Bryan Fogel’s work was cut out for him when he chose to direct a follow-up to Icarus, his 2017 deep dive into sports doping and the elaborate system of cheating among Russian Olympians. That film closed with a cliff-hanger. Having turned whistleblower mid-film, Grigory Rodchenkov, the architect of the state-sanctioned doping program, fled Russia and was in hiding stateside. To continue to tell his story, the challenge for Fogel lay not just in the artistic shadow cast by his vividly told Oscar winner. Complicating the making of a sequel was a crucial constraint: To protect the safety of the documentary’s central figure, Fogel wouldn’t be able to interact with him directly.
The solution was to embed a single cameraperson, producer Jake Swantko, with Rodchenkov and his security team. Tracking his life on the lam for nearly five years, Icarus: The Aftermath...
- 9/12/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Sherlock and Good Omens star Siân Brooke is to lead BBC One police thriller Blue Lights from the creators of The Salisbury Poisonings, with filming kicking off in Belfast.
Brooke will play Grace and be joined by The Dig’s Katherine Devlin and newcomer Nathan Braniff as three rookie police officers in the Northern Irish capital, with Grace making the decision in her 40s to leave her steady job and join the force. Just a few weeks into her role, she’s making so many mistakes that her decision no longer looks like a winning bet.
Brooke is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes’ evil sister Eurus in the final ever episode of the BBC’s Sherlock and she has also featured in Good Omens, Doctor Foster and as disgraced Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in ITV’s Stephen.
Joining Brooke in Blue Lights are Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer...
Brooke will play Grace and be joined by The Dig’s Katherine Devlin and newcomer Nathan Braniff as three rookie police officers in the Northern Irish capital, with Grace making the decision in her 40s to leave her steady job and join the force. Just a few weeks into her role, she’s making so many mistakes that her decision no longer looks like a winning bet.
Brooke is best known for playing Sherlock Holmes’ evil sister Eurus in the final ever episode of the BBC’s Sherlock and she has also featured in Good Omens, Doctor Foster and as disgraced Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick in ITV’s Stephen.
Joining Brooke in Blue Lights are Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer...
- 2/14/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“Have you ever done anything like this before?” public health director Tracy Daszkiewicz is asked in episode one of The Salisbury Poisonings. “I’ll tell you when I know what it is we’re doing,” she answers. That unassuming, honest wit and humility becomes characteristic of her approach across this extraordinary drama.
2020 may feel as if it has the monopoly on the word ‘unprecedented’, but in March 2018, Daszkiewicz and her colleagues faced a singular crisis: an international assassination attempt using a lethal, invisible and almost impossible-to-detect substance, a teaspoonful of which could kill tens of thousands of people. And all this in the picture postcard city of Salisbury, a place of river walks and lardy cake, not the expected backdrop to a global spy conspiracy.
At the time of the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the vital role Daszkiewicz played in protecting the people of Salisbury went undersung. Press focus at the time was,...
2020 may feel as if it has the monopoly on the word ‘unprecedented’, but in March 2018, Daszkiewicz and her colleagues faced a singular crisis: an international assassination attempt using a lethal, invisible and almost impossible-to-detect substance, a teaspoonful of which could kill tens of thousands of people. And all this in the picture postcard city of Salisbury, a place of river walks and lardy cake, not the expected backdrop to a global spy conspiracy.
At the time of the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the vital role Daszkiewicz played in protecting the people of Salisbury went undersung. Press focus at the time was,...
- 6/14/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
“It’s not an easy watch,” says Annabel Scholey of her latest role in BBC One’s The Salisbury Poisonings. “It’s harrowing but it’s an important story to tell.” The three-part drama airing on consecutive nights from Sunday the 14th of June depicts the aftermath of the 2018 assassination attempt on Russians Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the English city of Salisbury.
“You’d expect spies and the political side of things,” says Scholey, “but this is a different angle.” The drama focuses entirely on the local response to the Novichok poisonings led by public health director Tracy Daszkiewicz (Anne-Marie Duff), and on inadvertent victims Dawn Sturgess (MyAnna Buring) and DS Nick Bailey (Rafe Spall).
Scholey plays Sarah Bailey, wife to the police officer who became contaminated with the nerve agent during a search of the Skripals’ home. Despite the event’s dramatic international context, the efforts made to...
“You’d expect spies and the political side of things,” says Scholey, “but this is a different angle.” The drama focuses entirely on the local response to the Novichok poisonings led by public health director Tracy Daszkiewicz (Anne-Marie Duff), and on inadvertent victims Dawn Sturgess (MyAnna Buring) and DS Nick Bailey (Rafe Spall).
Scholey plays Sarah Bailey, wife to the police officer who became contaminated with the nerve agent during a search of the Skripals’ home. Despite the event’s dramatic international context, the efforts made to...
- 6/13/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Former BBC documentary makers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson are working on their next drama projects together as they prepare to launch The Salisbury Poisonings — the BBC’s major retelling of the 2018 Novichok poisonings on British soil.
Lawn and Patterson spent more than a year living in Salisbury, intensively researching the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal by Russian operatives, and they told Deadline that they intend to apply similar journalistic rigor to their future scripted work, which includes a “dream project” on the Ira.
Titled Dirty War, the script was in development with Patrick Melrose producer Two Cities Television when Deadline spoke to Lawn and Patterson earlier this year. Set in 1972, it centers on the British government and Royal Ulster Constabulary’s military intelligence war against the Irish Republican Army paramilitary group. “It’s based purely on testimony of people involved, and it will be a dream project...
Lawn and Patterson spent more than a year living in Salisbury, intensively researching the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal by Russian operatives, and they told Deadline that they intend to apply similar journalistic rigor to their future scripted work, which includes a “dream project” on the Ira.
Titled Dirty War, the script was in development with Patrick Melrose producer Two Cities Television when Deadline spoke to Lawn and Patterson earlier this year. Set in 1972, it centers on the British government and Royal Ulster Constabulary’s military intelligence war against the Irish Republican Army paramilitary group. “It’s based purely on testimony of people involved, and it will be a dream project...
- 6/2/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: BBC One has set the premiere date for Dancing Ledge Productions’ anticipated three-part miniseries, The Salisbury Poisonings. A dramatization of the 2018 Novichok poisonings that rocked the eponymous city and made global headlines, it will air from June 14-16 at 9Pm locally. Rafe Spall, Anne-Marie Duff and MyAnna Buring star. Saul Dibb directs. Fremantle, which has a minority stake in Dancing Ledge, is handling global distribution. Check out the first trailer above.
We recently spoke with executive producers Laurence Bowen and Chris Carey as well as writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn about pulling together this intimate portrayal of hope and bravery in the face of terrible tragedy, as well as its resonance within the current state of the world and what it was like to get through post-production amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The real-life mini tells the story of how ordinary people and public services reacted to the Novichok...
We recently spoke with executive producers Laurence Bowen and Chris Carey as well as writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn about pulling together this intimate portrayal of hope and bravery in the face of terrible tragedy, as well as its resonance within the current state of the world and what it was like to get through post-production amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The real-life mini tells the story of how ordinary people and public services reacted to the Novichok...
- 5/31/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The War of the Worlds star Rafe Spall and His Dark Materials actress Anne-Marie Duff have been cast in BBC Two’s dramatization of the Novichok poisonings in the historic British city of Salisbury in March 2018.
Also joining the cast of Dancing Ledge Productions’ Salisbury are Game Of Thrones actor Mark Addy and Ripper Street‘s MyAnna Buring, as well as Annabel Scholey and Johnny Harris.
Filming has begun on the three-part miniseries, which is written by McMafia writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. It will tell the story of how ordinary people reacted to the crisis as their city became the focus of an unprecedented national emergency when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned by Russian operatives.
Salisbury is executive produced by Les Miserables producer Chris Carey and Dancing Ledge CEO Laurence Bowen along with Patterson and Lawn and the BBC’s Lucy Richer.
Also joining the cast of Dancing Ledge Productions’ Salisbury are Game Of Thrones actor Mark Addy and Ripper Street‘s MyAnna Buring, as well as Annabel Scholey and Johnny Harris.
Filming has begun on the three-part miniseries, which is written by McMafia writers Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn. It will tell the story of how ordinary people reacted to the crisis as their city became the focus of an unprecedented national emergency when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned by Russian operatives.
Salisbury is executive produced by Les Miserables producer Chris Carey and Dancing Ledge CEO Laurence Bowen along with Patterson and Lawn and the BBC’s Lucy Richer.
- 10/24/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
You have to go back to Argentina ’78 for a World Cup played out against a more politically charged backdrop than Russia 2018.
The quadrennial tournament, which gets underway Thursday and runs through July 15, has been readied with Russia ever-present on the global news agenda due to wars in Ukraine and Syria, the Olympic doping scandal, meddling in Western elections and the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. Those controversies go some way to explaining why a handful of world leaders have decided not to attend the competition.
Just as Brazil 2014 kicked off with major protests due to the exorbitant cost of stadia, Russia 2018 has its own set of concerns on the ground.
First and foremost is security. After months of negative news cycles, it’s time for Russia’s big close-up, and putting on a good and safe show is paramount for Vladimir Putin (who isn’t a big soccer fan...
The quadrennial tournament, which gets underway Thursday and runs through July 15, has been readied with Russia ever-present on the global news agenda due to wars in Ukraine and Syria, the Olympic doping scandal, meddling in Western elections and the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. Those controversies go some way to explaining why a handful of world leaders have decided not to attend the competition.
Just as Brazil 2014 kicked off with major protests due to the exorbitant cost of stadia, Russia 2018 has its own set of concerns on the ground.
First and foremost is security. After months of negative news cycles, it’s time for Russia’s big close-up, and putting on a good and safe show is paramount for Vladimir Putin (who isn’t a big soccer fan...
- 6/12/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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