The prequel sequence to Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 crime thriller Sexy Beast is ready to premiere on Paramount+ on January 25, 2024. Along with the discharge date announcement, the streaming service has additionally shared first-look images, giving viewers a glimpse at what to anticipate from the upcoming eight-episode sequence of the identical identify.
Solely based mostly on Glazer’s cult traditional movie, Sexy Beast will chronicle the origins of Gal Dove, Don Logan, and Teddy Bass. The characters had been performed by Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane within the stated British crime film.
The newly launched pictures reintroduce the characters from the Sexy Beast film, highlighting the brand new faces portraying the beloved important leads, together with Mare of Easttown’s James McArdle as Gal Dove and The Rig’s Emun Elliott as Don Logan.
The upcoming sequence is ready to hint again to the sophisticated relationship between finest buddies and small-time thieves Gal Dove and Don Logan as they acquired concerned in a much-bigger legal world within the ’90s in East London.
You can try the first-look pictures down under:
Who else is concerned in Sexy Beast’s prequel?
The Sopranos’ Michael Caleo serves because the forthcoming present’s author and showrunner. He additionally government produced Sexy Beast alongside Nicole Clemens, JC Acosta, Alastair Galbraith, Michael Scheel, David Caffrey, and Antony Smith. The 2000 movie’s writers, David Scinto and Louis Mellis, additionally returned because the present’s government producers.
In an announcement (by way of Variety), Caleo stated reintroducing the Sexy Beast story to a brand new era of viewers has been his “nice ardour.”
“I really feel so lucky to have the ability to discover these superbly crafted characters a decade earlier than we met them within the authentic story. This sequence has been an amazing ardour of mine for a few years and I can’t wait to see it come to life with this superb forged,” stated Caleo.
Besides McArdle and Elliott, Sexy Beast may even star Sarah Greene as Deedee, Stephen Moyer as Teddy Bass, and Tamsin Greig as Cecilia. The remainder of the forged consists of Eliza Bennett, Peter Ferdinando, Nicholas Nunn, and Clea Martin.
