{"id":801970,"date":"2026-07-15T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:13:09","slug":"kit-harington-america-ferrera-paddy-considine-join-army-of-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801970\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Harington, America Ferrera, Paddy Considine Join Army of Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cArmy of Shadows,\u201d the upcoming thriller series from BAFTA-winning \u201cMobLand\u201d and \u201cThe Day of the Jackal\u201d creator Ronan Bennett<\/a> and set in a near-future authoritarian Britain, has set its top cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeading the ensemble are BAFTA winner Paddy Considine<\/a> (\u201cHouse of The Dragon,\u201d \u201cMobLand\u201d), Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera<\/a> (\u201cBarbie,\u201d \u201cThe Lost Bus\u201d), Alex Hassell (\u201cRivals,\u201d \u201cWasteman\u201d) and Kit Harington<\/a> (\u201cIndustry,\u201d \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d). Meanwhile, Lisa Gunning (\u201cBlack Doves,\u201d \u201cThe Power\u201d) will direct all six episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\tFirst announced last year, the series reunites Bennett with U.K. network Channel 4, which commissioned and aired his breakout hit \u201cTop Boy.\u201d It\u2019s being co-produced by Studiocanal (\u201cPlaying Nice,\u201d \u201cFamilies Like Ours\u201d) and Two Cities Television (\u201cBlue Lights,\u201d \u201cPatrick Melrose\u201d) and has now begun filming in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Paris.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cArmy of Shadows\u201d is inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville\u2019s 1969 film and Joseph Kessel\u2019s seminal book of the same name, which famously dramatized the emergence of the French Resistance to the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII. Bennett\u2019s reimagining \u2014 developed and produced with the support of the Melville family and the Kessel estate, which is controlled by the Irish Red Cross \u2014 examines the rise of resistance in an occupied U.K.. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs per the synopsis, \u201cArmy of Shadows\u201d is set in a Britain that \u201clooks almost normal, but the flags are different, the news is careful, and nobody says certain things out loud anymore. But everyone can feel it. Somewhere beneath the surface of ordinary life something has gone terribly, quietly wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut out of the shadows emerges a former soldier known only as Berry, who starts building a secret resistance network. He knows one thing above all else: don\u2019t act before you\u2019re ready. An unlikely group starts to coalesce around him \u2014 people who\u2019ve decided they can\u2019t look away any longer: a soldier, a student, a radiographer and a journalist. These are ordinary people with ordinary lives making an extraordinary and irreversible choice.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut against them is a state with unlimited reach, a ruthless minister who\u2019ll do whatever it takes to maintain order, and an American intelligence operative called Jessie, who is very good at her job. \u201cArmy of Shadows is a tense, propulsive thriller about what resistance actually costs,\u201d reads the description. \u201cIf your country were occupied, what would you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRonan Bennett has created a gripping, provocative and action-packed drama that feels both epic in scale and strikingly relevant,\u201d said Gwawr Lloyd, interim head of drama at Channel 4. \u201c\u2018Army of Shadows asks powerful questions about freedom, resistance and the choices people make when democracy is under threat. With a stellar cast lined up under the direction of Lisa Gunning, this is exactly the kind of thought-provoking and high stakes drama that Channel 4 looks to bring to our viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Anna Marsh, CEO of Studiocanal and chief content officer of Canal+: \u201cInspired by Jean-Pierre Melville\u2019s exceptional 1969 film from our catalogue, and Joseph Kessel\u2019s formative book, we are incredibly proud to have developed this series from inception, attaching an extraordinary cast and creative team to bring \u2018Army of Shadows\u2019 into production today. Ronan Bennett\u2019s work is thrilling, climactic and important. And we are delighted to now welcome Lisa Gunning who directs all 6 episodes with irrepressible vision and command.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cArmy of Shadows\u201d has been commissioned for Channel 4 by Lloyd plus Gemma Boswell and Rebecca Holdsworth, drama commissioning editors, Channel 4. Executive producers are Paul Gilbert and M-K Kennedy for Studiocanal Television, Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin for Studiocanal, with Stephen Wright and Michael Jackson for Two Cities Television alongside Bennett. Studiocanal developed the series from inception with Two Cities Television, which is part of STV Studios. Alison Sterling is the series producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tCANAL+ has commissioned the series for their global footprint spanning over 50 countries across France, Europe, Africa and Asia. Studiocanal will handle international sales and worldwide distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cArmy of Shadows,\u201d the upcoming thriller series from BAFTA-winning \u201cMobLand\u201d and \u201cThe Day of the Jackal\u201d creator Ronan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28797,64,63,134,56130,375993,375994,427],"class_list":["post-801970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-america-ferrera","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-kit-harington","tag-paddy-considine","tag-ronan-bennett","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}