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Rafe Spall, Eleanor Tomlinson & Robert Carlyle To Topline BBC One Adaption Of ‘War Of The Worlds’

The Big Short’s Rafe Spall and Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson are to lead the cast of BBC One’s adaptation The War of the Worlds alongside Trainspotting’s Robert Carlyle and Sherlock’s Rupert Graves. Filming on the three-part drama, which is produced by ITV-owned Mammoth Screen, has started in Liverpool with Wallander’s Peter Harness adapting the classic H.G. Wells alien invasion story.

The War of the Worlds will be directed by Craig Viveiros (And Then There Were None, Rillington Place) and produced by Betsan Morris Evans (The City & The City).

http://deadline.com/2018/04/rafe-spall-eleanor-tomlinson-robert-carlyle-to-topline-bbc-one-adaption-of-war-of-the-worlds-1202359327/