Olivia Colman has been cast in Landscapers.
The forthcoming crime drama hails from HBO and Sky, the team behind the Emmy award-winning series Chernobyl.
The Oscar-winning actress will play convicted killer Susan alongside convicted killer Christopher Edwards who has yet to be cast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the drama will question how the devoted and mild-mannered couple came to kill Susan’s parents in 1998 and bury them in the back garden of their home in Nottingham, England, in a crime that remained undiscovered for over a decade before their convictions and jailing in 2014.
Alexander Payne will direct the four-part limited series inspired by real events. Ed Sinclair penned the screenplay based on hours of interviews with the real-life figures.
“I love Ed’s scripts, which is just as well as he cooks many of my meals. No, the truth is it’s quite rare to be desperate to play a part on the first reading of a script, but that was the case here,” Colman said in a statement.
Colman currently stars as Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix’s The Crown.
