From a media release:
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL
ANNOUNCE WORLD CLASS CO-PRODUCTION TEAM
JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL is going into pre-production this month with a world class production team and international co-producers in place, brokered by FAR MOOR MEDIA. The carefully constructed team now in place are: ENDEMOL WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION, BBC AMERICA, Bell Media’s SPACE and SCREEN YORKSHIRE, along with production companies CUBA PICTURES, FEEL FILMS, Quebec’s CITÉ AMÉRIQUE and co-production specialist FAR MOOR. The seven part series for BBC ONE is based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke, set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return.
In the growing international industry of high end scripted drama, FAR MOOR have secured the major international co-production team to enable JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL to have the best possible financial grounding for a production worldwide.
Peter Harness (Wallander starring Kenneth Brannagh; Is Anybody There? starring Michael Caine and David Morrissey) is adapting all seven episodes of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL.
