The new series tackles Eleanor Catton’s bestselling book…

The Beeb has released a trailer for The Luminaries, which adapts Eleanor Catton’s 2013 novel of the same name. Eva Green (Penny Dreadful), Marton Csokas (Into The Badlands), Eve Hewson (Robin Hood), Himesh Patel (The Aeronauts) and Ewen Leslie (The Cry) star in the six-part series, which premieres next week.

The Luminaries is a 19th century tale of adventure and mystery, set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in the boom years of the 1860s gold rush. It follows defiant young adventurer Anna Wetherell, who has sailed from Britain to New Zealand to begin a new life. There she meets the radiant Emery Staines, an encounter that triggers a strange kind of magic that neither can explain. As they fall in love, driven together and apart by fateful coincidence, these star-crossed lovers begin to wonder: do we make our fortunes, or do our fortunes make us?

See the trailer below…

The Luminaries gets underway on BBC One on Sunday June 21st at 9pm.