BBC has released the first trailer for The English , the western series starring Emily Blunt which will come to us on Prime Video. There he is…
In The English , the aristocratic Lady Cornelia Locke is forced to ally with former cavalry scout Eli Whipp ( Chaske Spencer ) to cross the brutal landscape of America in the 1890s, a place built on dreams and blood. The English will use “the key themes of identity and revenge to tell a unique and exciting parable about race, love and power”.
Hugo Blick ( The Honorable Woman, Black Earth Rising ) wrote and directed the series. The cast also consists of Stephen Rea , who plays Sheriff Robert Marshall, and Valerie Pachner as the young widow Martha Myers. With them Ciarán Hinds, Rafe Spall, Toby Jones and Tom Hughes .
The series is produced by Wolf Gait Productions. Blick and Blunt are executive producers alongside Greg Brenman and Mona Qureshi . Producers include Colin Wratten ( Killing Eve ).