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After many years of hard work behind the scenes, the miniseries adaptation of Alex Scarrow’s brilliant 2007 novel LAST LIGHT has premiered on the US streaming service Peacock. The five-part series, directed by Dennie Gordon (Jack Ryan, Madame Secretary), stars Matthew Fox (Lost) and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey).
LAST LIGHT was co-produced by MGM International, Make It Happen Studio, Cactus Films, Entertainment 360, Film United, Twentieth Century Fox and Viaplay. It is expected to air in the UK on NOW TV and the Sky app, as part of their offering of Peacock content.
Set in the near future, LAST LIGHT is a thriller unfolding over the course of just a few days: it seems to be a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. And this is no natural disaster: someone is behind this.
Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to London, where her children are marooned as events begin to spiral out of control: riots, raging fires, looting, rape and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into a lawless and anarchic vision of hell.
Jenny's estranged husband, oil engineer Andy Sutherland, is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home to his family, trapped as transport links and the very infrastructure of daily life begin to collapse around him.
Against all this, a mysterious man is tracking Andy's family. He'll silence anyone who might be able to reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. It seems that the same people who now have a stranglehold on the future of civilisation have flexed their muscles before, at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secret - and their power - safe.
About Alex Scarrow
Born in Hertford, raised in Hong Kong and then Essex, Alex is an ex-rock guitarist, graphic artist and creative director of a games company; now a full-time writer. His TIME RIDERS series is a huge international success sold into 20 languages and his new projects pack the punch to go bigger and better.
ELLIE QUIN is a Sci Fi thriller series featuring a remarkable heroine in a bizarre and dangerous futuristic world that is closer than you think.
He is currently developing ICARUS, a feature film script, with Forefront Media and working on potential adaptations of some of his novels.
BFLA handles the media rights in Alex's books as well as his screenwriting.
Praise for LAST LIGHT
‘Alex Scarrow's depiction of Britain as only a few hours away from disintegration is chillingly plausible’ – Daily Telegraph
‘LAST LIGHT is sensational’ – London Lite
‘Scarrow keeps his foot on the accelerator in this apocalyptic thriller, which is reminiscent of Frederick Forsyth and John Wyndham’ – Birmingham Post
‘Few books have made my heart race and blood pressure soar like this one... it had me on the edge of my seat.’ – Peterborough Evening Telegraph
‘This has everything, from conspiracy theories to highlighting environmental issues facing the world today ... Scarrow made my head zing.’ – The Truth About Books
‘A terrific thriller ... the thriller of the summer. It should be the novel that airport booksellers can't get enough of.’ – materialwitness.com
‘Alex Scarrow is a crime writer of real distinction.’ – Good Book Guide
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