The North Water (miniseries)


The North Water is an upcoming BBC Two four-part limited television series, based on Ian McGuire's novel of the same name.

Premise

"Farrell plays Henry Drax in the drama, a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland."

Cast

The series first began development in late 2016.
It was announced in February 2019 that Colin Farrell has been cast to star in the miniseries. Jack O'Connell was added in April. with Stephen Graham, Tom Courtenay and Peter Mullan amongst additional cast announced. Filming of the miniseries started in October 2019, in Hungary, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, with the production team journeying north as far as 81 degrees, to shoot pack ice sequences, which is purported to be the furthest point north any television drama has ever been filmed.