MGM+ and the BBC have picked up an adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities starring Kit Harington ( Industry, Game of Thrones ), François Civil ( Beating Hearts, The Three Musketeers) and Mirren Mack ( Miss Austen , Hedda) .

Daniel West ( Top Boy) is creator and Hong Khao is set to direct the four-part Charles Dickens adaptation, which has been acquired by MGM+ and the BBC and comes from Federation Stories alongside Thriker Films. It will air next year.

The iconic Dickens novel is set in London, 1782. Tensions run high in the war between France and Britain as a young woman, Lucie Manette (Mack) has her life upended when she receives a message from Paris – her father, assumed dead for almost 20 years, may be alive. The messenger – idealistic French emigré, Charles Darnay

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