{"id":204504,"date":"2025-10-16T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204504\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:54:07","slug":"gwendoline-christie-joins-german-series-black-gold-global-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204504\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwendoline Christie Joins German Series ‘Black Gold’ \u2013 Global Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGwendoline Christie<\/a> Boards German Drama \u2018Black Gold<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\n\tGame of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie, Marton Csokas<\/a> (The Luminaries) and Merlin Sandmeyer (Die Discounter) have joined the cast of German-language oil town drama Black Gold. Joining them are two-time Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer<\/a>, who will compose the score alongside violinist Aleksey Igudesman. Christie and Csokas play English prospectors Emma and Tyler Robertson, who come to a quiet village near L\u00fcneburg Heath after oil fields are discovered. The oil rush threatens to tear the town apart as the wealthy Pape family seek the claim the fields from the Lamberts, a family of farmers whose lives have been transformed by the discovery. Above is a first look at Christie and Csokas. They are joining Harriet Herbig-Matten (Maxton Hall), Aaron Hilmer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Tom Wlaschiha (Game of Thrones), Lena Urzendowsky (How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)), Jessica Schwarz (The Canoe of Manitu), Henny Reents (North by Northwest), Slavko Popadi\u0107 (Krank Berlin) and Liliom Lewald (Oderbruch) in the cast. Fifth Season<\/a> has boarded for international sales rights, with Germany\u2019s NDR and ARD the commissioners. It comes from the UK\u2019s FilmNation Entertainment, which is new to the set up, and Kinescope Film, part of the Swiss Studios development and production group. 4film and Hero Square also provide exec producers on the six-part show, which is from Justin Koch, who also serves as head writer. Several regional German funds and the Hungarian National Film Office are financially supporting production. We revealed news of Black Gold<\/a> in an interview with Swiss Studios CEO Malte Probst last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tBBC<\/a> Appoints Drama Development Boss<\/p>\n

\n\tBBC Drama has officially appointed Bradley Down as its Head of Development. He has been in situ in an acting capacity for the past six months following Sami El-Hadi\u2019s move to Baby Reindeer prodcuer Clerkenwell Films. Prior to that, he was a commissioning editor on shows such as EastEnders, Cheaters and Just Act Normal. He is currently working on drama Open Water and Honey. Before the BBC, Down held roles at Complete Fiction Pictures and Big Talk Studios. \u201cBrad has been an outstanding asset to\u00a0BBC Drama\u00a0since he joined and a real joy to work with,\u201d said Lindsay Salt, Director of\u00a0BBC\u00a0Drama. \u201cBrad\u2019s all about backing brave and entertaining work full of purpose and surprise, so he\u2019ll be a great support and champion for producers and talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCyber Thriller \u2018Phish_<\/a>\u2019 Underway In Amsterdam<\/p>\n

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Dutch director Thijs Meuwese (Molly)\u00a0is underway in Amsterdam on cyber thriller\u00a0Phish_, which will star Aliona Baranova (ITV\u2019s\u00a0Maternal). Set in the hacking world, Meuwese is directing from a script he wrote with Lawant. Maurice Schutte (The Occupant) serves as producer. The synopsis reads: \u201cAn ethical hacker (Baranova) sticks up for a friend who fell victim to a phishing scam, but finds herself descending into paranoia as she gets caught up in a risky game of cat and mouse with a dangerous blackhat cyber criminal.\u201d Above is a first look image. Baranova is repped by Citizen Skull Management in the U.S. and International Artists Management in the UK.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2018Ghosts Australia\u2019 Producer Joins Australia\u2019s Typecast<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAustralian producer Typecast has hired Ghosts Australia exec Christopher Kam as Head of Development. Kam will oversee the Indigenous content specialist\u2019s slate and exec-produce select projects. He has worked across international film and TV for 15 years, and between 2023 and 2024 was development producer at BBC Studios ANZ, where he worked on Ghosts, Paramount+ Australia\u2019s version of the UK and U.S. hit sitcom. Before that, he spent nine years at UK indie Eleventh Hour Films, and also served as Director of Scripted Development at NBCUniversal International Studios, where he worked as a studio exec on Prime Video\u2019s Hanna and the BBC\u2019s The Capture, and a script editor on The Long Song. \u201cWe\u2019re over the moon that Christopher has decided to join Typecast,\u201d said\u00a0Tony Briggs, company director of Typecast. \u201cHe brings a level of skill and expertise to our team that will help take our business to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gwendoline Christie Boards German Drama \u2018Black Gold\u2018 Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie, Marton Csokas (The Luminaries) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,88422,96,88423,88424,88425,88426,88427,391,88428,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-204504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-black-gold","tag-entertainment","tag-fifth-season","tag-gwendoline-christie","tag-hans-zimmer","tag-marton-csokas","tag-phish_","tag-tv","tag-typecast","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}