Exclusive: Bulletproof co-creator and The Sweeney director Nick Love is developing a Troubles-set TV series with DJ Pete Tong.
Trouble, which is being lined up as a returning series, will be set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, starting in 1989 at the height of The Troubles at the same time that dance music was also taking hold. It will tell the story of how a generation of kids discovered dance music and ecstasy and how the rave scene offered an escape from the tough social and political climate.
Love is currently writing the pilot and will direct and show-run. Executive producers will be Pete Tong, Alan Moloney and Tony Cochrane. Maloney, producer of movies such as Albert Nobbs and Mary Shelley, and Keira Knightley mini-series Neverland, will produce for his Parallel Films banner.
Endeavor Content will handle sales. Tong will curate the music.
DJ, radio host and music producer Tong is one...
Trouble, which is being lined up as a returning series, will be set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, starting in 1989 at the height of The Troubles at the same time that dance music was also taking hold. It will tell the story of how a generation of kids discovered dance music and ecstasy and how the rave scene offered an escape from the tough social and political climate.
Love is currently writing the pilot and will direct and show-run. Executive producers will be Pete Tong, Alan Moloney and Tony Cochrane. Maloney, producer of movies such as Albert Nobbs and Mary Shelley, and Keira Knightley mini-series Neverland, will produce for his Parallel Films banner.
Endeavor Content will handle sales. Tong will curate the music.
DJ, radio host and music producer Tong is one...
- 2/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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