The BBC has released a trailer for its adaptation of China Miéville’s 2008 novel The City and The City. The four-episode series will begin airing in the UK on Friday, April 6th.
The BBC and Mammoth Screen studios (which is also working on a new BBC adaptation of H.G. Wells’ Victorian-set novel The War of the Worlds), picked up the adaptation in 2015, with screenwriter Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams) attached to write. The series follows Tyador Borlú (played by The Walking Dead’s David Morrissey), who is an inspector with the Extreme Crime Squad in a fictional city called Besźel.
The story is set in a unique world. Two cities — the poor Besźel and wealthy Ul Qoma — occupy the same geographic...
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