A debut trailer has landed for Landscapers, a new series starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis has just debuted online ahead of its debut on screens from December. The series comes from HBO and will air on the cable channel from 6th December and on Sky Atlantic a day later.
Inspired by real events, the four-part Sky Original limited series is created and written by Ed Sinclair and sees writer-director Will Sharpe (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Flowers) bring his singular vision to the story. Landscapers is the latest project from SISTER in association with South of the River Pictures for Sky Studios and HBO after the multi-Emmy and BAFTA award-winning hit Chernobyl.
The synopsis is as follows:
Landscapers tells a unique love story involving a seemingly ordinary couple who become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when a couple of dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
Mild-mannered husband and wife Susan (Colman) and Christopher Edwards (Thewlis) have been on the run from reality for over 15 years. When Christopher makes a startling call home to his?step-mother, their role in a terrible crime that remained undiscovered for over a decade begins to emerge into the light. As their relationship is subjected to the glare of a full police investigation, the devoted couple are separated for the first time in their marriage.?? ?
As the investigation moves forward, inspired by Susan’s obsession with old Westerns and classic cinema the fantasists cast themselves as Hollywood heroes in narratives of their own invention.? Powered by Susan’s extraordinary imagination, Susan and Chris’s fantasy world provides a?much needed?sanctuary from real-world horrors and their own clawing guilt, but also threatens to undo them completely.?
Watch the trailer below.
