
EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Stokes, who performs Francesca Bridgerton within the hit Netflix duration romp, is to steer the forged of the streamer’s newest guide adaptation.
Stokes stars in Lockwood & Co., a sequence adaptation of Jonathan Stroud’s guide collection.
She is joined by way of newbies Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati within the Entire Fiction-produced collection, which comes from Assault the Block director Joe Cornish.
The forged additionally contains Ivanno Jeremiah (People), Luke Treadaway (Ordeal by way of Innocence) and Morven Christie (The Bay).
Stokes performs Lucy Carlyle, newly arrived, supremely psychically proficient lady who at the side of Chapman’s Anthony Lockwood and Hadji-Heshmati as George Karim, run a psychic detection company.
Set in London, the place essentially the most proficient teenage ghost-hunters undertaking nightly into perilous battle with fatal spirits, amidst the numerous company, adult-run businesses, one stands on my own: impartial of any business crucial or grownup supervision – a tiny startup, run by way of a renegade trio destined to resolve a thriller that can trade the process historical past: Lockwood & Co.
Jeremiah stars as Inspector Barnes, Treadaway performs The Golden Blade and Christie stars as Penelope Fittes. They’re additionally joined by way of Jack Bandeira, who performs Quill Kipps, Ben Crompton as Julius Winkman, Hayley Konadu as Flo Bones, Rhianna Dorris as Kat Godwin and Paddy Holland as Bobby Vernon.
Cornish, who additionally co-wrote Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Ant-Guy, exec produces along Nira Park and Rachael Prior
The eight-part collection is produced by way of Entire Fiction, which was once based by way of Edgar Wright, Cornish, Park and Prior.