EXCLUSIVE: British producer Fired Up Films has teamed up with The Crying Game star Stephen Rea and Beat director Marco Kreuzpaintner on a pair of dramas. The company, which was set up in 2017 by Si…
Rea is starring Ladder of Angels, a procedural crime series set in the 1980s, written by Irish author John Connell. The crime drama exposes the dark side of Irish politics and history and Rea, who recently starred in BBC and SundanceTV drama, plays Aidan Deane, a seasoned detective and a man of secrets. It is being developed in conjunction with Northern Ireland Screen.and when he came to us with his first TV series set in County Longford, we had to option it.
“With an extensive background in documentary film making, Simon and Fired Up are the perfect partners for a show that we feel will set the bar on factually based story telling like this,” Charnick said. Kreuzpaintner called it an “intriguing rollercoaster”. “The Increment has a character driven narrative and pace that sets it apart from other espionage thrillers. It will also enable us to give the show a multi-language edge and huge international appeal. But what really drew to me to it was the lead character. Being able to get inside the mindset of a woman, a mother, who operates in this world was really something that intrigued me,” he added.
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