McMafia, BBC1’s upcoming drama series about globalised gangsterism could, in a certain light, be seen as one epic showreel for James Norton to exhibit his potential prowess as the next James Bond.
The Beeb’s eight-part adaptation of journalist Misha Glenny’s 2008 non-fiction book about the increasingly internationalised nature of organised crime is not short of ambition.
Norton has since said that he believes he won the role because he was auditioned remotely.
The extent to which we are all complicit in this corruption is extraordinary… and terrifying.”