SBS picks up Rogue Heroes
New UK drama dramatises how the Special Air Service was formed in North Africa.
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SBS has picked up the rights to UK drama Rogue Heroes.
Written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and produced by Kudos and Nebulastar for the BBC, the project is a dramatised account of how the SAS, the world’s first special forces unit, was formed by the British Army in the darkest days of the Second World War.
The project, based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling non-fiction book, is directed by Tom Shankland (The Serpent, The Missing), with Stephen Smallwood (The Serpent, Patrick Melrose) as producer.
The cast includes Connor Swindells (Vigil) will play Stirling, and the cast also includes Jack O’Connell (Skins), Dominic West (The Crown), Alfie Allen (Jojo Rabbit), Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk) and Sofia Boutella (Atomic Blonde).
The show has been picked up by pay TV broadcaster Canal+ in France, o Epix in the US, HBO Max in Europe, Prime Video in Canada.
An airdate is yet to be announced.
Source: C21
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For those who take an interest in this 20th century era of global war getting the period details right counts for a lot, and that includes the culture and behaviour of the times, manner of speech, accents and the class distinction which definitely was part of the British army then. During the 1950’s the socio-economic culture of the 1940’s was still part of contemporary British society which meant some of the war movies made at that time became some of the most popular and authentic WWII movies made. Having read Ben Macintyre’s book this series should be quite intense and character driven, these guys were tough, eccentric and also very flawed, they made plenty of mistakes waging a new type of war, the early limited success of the special services fighting behind enemy lines would have had them disbanded from the British army if David Stirling was not in command, his role will be interesting.