The brand new series for Channel 4 has added more big names to the production, here’s the latest information on Army of Shadows:

There’s new developments on the inbound series inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film and Joseph Kessel’s novel of the same name. The latest information reveals more names on the cast list.

What’s Army of Shadows about?

Based on a dramatisation the historic events of the French resistance of Nazi occupation of French land during the Second World War, the new look on the source material turns its eye to an imagined occupied Britain. Resistance is quietly and surely taking shape, and the story follows the lives of those involved, namely a soldier, a student, a radiographer, a journalist.

Who’s in it?

Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie), Luther Ford (The Man I Love), Amara Okereke (In the Lost Lands), Patrick O’Kane (The Day of the Jackal), Anjli Mohindra (The Lazarus Project), Ed Ashley (Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) and Zoë Telford (The Crow Girl).

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