‘Gray’s Anatomy’s Richard Flood To Lead Thriller Sequence ‘The Gone’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Flood (Gray’s Anatomy) and Acushla-Tara Kupe (Mr Corman) have been solid as leads in The Gone, a thriller drama sequence for RTÉ and New Zealand’s TVNZ that brings collectively Irish and Māori tradition. The pair will entrance the sequence, which works into principal images on location in Auckland and Te Aroha, New Zealand this week, with additional taking pictures going down in Eire’s capital Dublin late this yr.

New Zealand’s Kingfisher Movies and About Joan co-producer Blinder Movies are co-producing, in affiliation with one other Kiwi agency, Southern Mild Movies. Te Puna Kairangi, the New Zealand Authorities’s Premium Productions for Worldwide Audiences Fund and New Zealand’s Display screen Manufacturing Grant; Display screen Eire/Fís Éireann; NZ On Air; and the BAI Sound & Imaginative and prescient Fund have all supported the manufacturing. Crimson Arrow Worldwide Studios has the distribution rights.

The Gone stars Flood as Theo Richter, an Irish detective who groups with Kiwi cop Diana Huia (Kupe) to discover a younger Irish couple vanish from an notorious rural North Island New Zealand city. Amidst the search and a race towards time, the pair need to deal with a group’s rising disquiet that the disappearances could also be linked to a sequence of historic murders.

Michelle Fairley (Recreation of Thrones), Carolyn Bracken (The Dublin Murders) , Liam Carney (Gangs of New York) and Aaron Monaghan (Murderer’s Creed) have additionally been solid together with Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Wayne Hapi (Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Porou), Manu Bennett (Te Arawa, Ngāti Kahungunu), Vanessa Uncommon (Ngāti Pu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāpuhi) and Scott Wills.

Flood is coming off a three-year run on ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy, the place he performed Dr Cormac Hayes. He’s additionally recognized for European-U.S. procedural Crossing Traces, Irish crime drama Crimson Rock and a task in Showtime’s Shameless. Kupe most not too long ago appeared as Susan Corman in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Apple TV+ sequence Mr Corman and is about to seem in season two of Acorn TV and TVNZ’s comedy-drama sequence Below the Vines.

The Gone‘s writers are Michael Bennett (In Darkish Locations) and Anna McPartlin (Putting Out, Holby Metropolis), with Peter Meteherangi Tikao Burger (One Lane Bridge, Till Confirmed Harmless, Resolve) and Hannah Quinn (Vikings Valhalla, Blood, The Stranger) directing.

Government Producers are Karl Zohrab for Kingfisher Movies; Yvonne Donohoe (Putting Out, Further Atypical) and Katie Holly (Mr Malcolm’s Checklist, Love & Friendship) for Blinder Movies andGreg Bailey from Southern Mild, whose Timothy White is a producer alongside Reikura Kahi. Simone Nathan (Our Flag Means Loss of life, Child Sister) and Karl Zohrab created the sequence, with developed by McPartlin, Bennett and Donohoe.

“What an journey it’s been up to now, working throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and Eire with our colleagues at Blinder Movies on the event of this gripping thriller,” mentioned Zohrab. “We are able to’t wait to see these scripts dropped at life by sequence administrators Peter and Hannah, together with our terrific solid and crew.

“The method of bringing The Gone to display screen has been a real worldwide cultural collaboration & a journey of studying, difficult, sharing tales and concepts; merging good writing, directing, performing and inventive expertise from Eire and New Zealand, two international locations stuffed with magnificence, complexity and with many similarities,” mentioned Donohoe. “We’re so grateful for the immense help from all our companions and we are able to’t await audiences to spend time with our characters, fall into the mysterious net of our story and be immersed within the two contrasting worlds of the sequence.”

“The Gone sequence transports us to a picturesque small city with characters and storylines that mirror how culturally distinctive Aotearoa is,” added producer Kahi. “Te reo Māori [Māori language] is weaved organically via the sequence, reflective of a nation that’s on a journey in direction of embracing the Māori language.”

RTE labored with Blinder on Irish authorized drama Putting Out and the broadcaster’s Director of Acquisitions & Co-Productions Dermot Horan mentioned of The Gone: “It guarantees to be a cracking drama and one which can hopefully have viewers glued to their seats each in Eire and New Zealand. We’re notably completely happy to be working with our fellow nationwide broadcaster, TVNZ and with Crimson Arrow, who will probably be distributing this high-end drama to worldwide broadcasters and platforms.” 

Cate Slater, TVNZ Director of Content material, added: “We’re delighted to be persevering with our dedication to co-productions to convey the perfect premium content material to TVNZ. The Gone is an exciting idea that’s certain to resonate with our viewers throughout TVNZ 1 and TVNZ+.”

Flood is represented by Extra Medavoy Administration, Denton Brierley, and Gersh. Kupe is represented by Gail Cowan Administration in New Zealand and Rigmarole Administration within the UK.