The Ink Factory, BBC ONE and AMC have announced that Academy Award-nominated Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Nocturnal Animals) will join BAFTA Award-nominated Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) and Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies, True Blood) in Park Chan-wook’s television debut The Little Drummer Girl, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by John le Carré.
The series will be financed and produced by The Ink Factory in partnership with 127 Wall and co-producers the BBC and AMC.
Michael Shannon can currently be seen in Academy Award-nominated The Shape of Water, from Guillermo del Toro, and Nicolai Fuglsig’s 12 Strong.
Set in the late 1970s, yet sharply contemporary, The Little Drummer Girl weaves a dynamic and exciting story of espionage and international intrigue; of love and betrayal.