Netflix is set to give viewers a double Jamie Dornan treat, as the streamer has officially ordered a new crime noir series — titled The Undertow — starring The Tourist actor as two of the twin brothers.
Variety reported that the project is based on Twin, a Norwegian crime drama created by Kristoffer Metcalfe. The series starred Game of Thrones actor Kristofer Hivju as identical twins Adam and Erik. Meanwhile, The Undertow will star Dornan as Adam and Lee.
Blade Runner 2049’s Mackenzie Davis, The Winter King’s Iain de Caestecker, and Gang of New York’s Gary Lewis will join Dornan in the series. According to the outlet, production for The Undertow will begin later this year in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.
What is The Undertow about?
The official description for The Undertow (via Variety) reads: “Suffocating in a loveless marriage to Adam (Dornan), Nicola’s (Davis) life takes a dramatic turn when Adam’s long-estranged identical twin brother Lee (Dornan) comes crashing back into her life, and their tangled romantic past threatens to destroy the present. A split-second decision and a terrible accident drives Nicola to protect her children, and over the course of one week, Lee and Nicola are forced together, struggling to maintain a web of secrets and lies. Though they can’t ignore their feelings for each other, they both know they’re living on borrowed time.”
Jeremy Lovering will direct and executive produce the series, with Sarah Dollard, Hanna Jameson, Scout Cripps, and Kam Odedra serving as writers. Dollard will also executive produce.
Apart from portraying two characters, Dornan will also executive produce the series. The actor can be seen playing a car crash victim recently in The Tourist. He’s as previously starred in one of his breakthrough roles in The Fall, wherein he played serial killer Paul Spector — a role that earned him a BAFTA TV Award nomination.
His other acting credits include Marie Antoinette, Anthropoid, Once Upon a Time, Robin Hood, Synchronic, My Dinner with Hervé, Wild Mountain Thyme, Heart of Stone, and Belfast, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for his Kenneth Branagh role.
The actor most recently starred on the big screen as Dr. Leslie Ferrier in A Haunting in Venice.
