Apple has been busy developing a TV+ adaptation of Mick Herron's superb Slow Horses series of spy novels, with Gary Oldman on to star. Now we know that Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden and Olivia Cooke are joining him.
Herron's successful, entertaining and often darkly comic series follows the less-than-by-the-book behaviour of Jackson Lamb (Oldman), a brilliant but frequently furious leader of a group of MI5 misfits, who all end up posted to his Slough House facility after screwing up missions (or being maneuvered into doing so by Thames House rivals).
Lowden is set to play River Cartwright, the latest officer banished to Lamb's team, and essentially the audience substitute in exploring this world. Cooke, who has scored another high-profile telly job recently, will be Sid Baker, a sharp agent and River's officemate. Outside the office, Thomas is Diana Taverner, a powerful, conflicted agent at Thames House and Pryce is set as River's grandfather, himself a retired agent.
Graham Yost, no stranger to bringing unorthodox literary heroes to life with Justified, will be the main executive producer, while regular Armando Iannucci collaborator Will Smith is on hand to write the scripts, and to keep the British feel intact. James Hawes, a veteran of Black Mirror and the Snowpiercer series, will direct at least one episode. We have no details on when it might hit Apple TV+ yet.