Sky 1 commissions Jack Whitehall's Bounty Hunters
- Jack Whitehall and Oscar-nominee Rosie Perez will star in a new Sky 1 "action adventure" comedy
- Bounty Hunters is written by Whitehall with long-term collaborator Freddy Syborn
- The series sees a British antique dealer team up with a New York bounty hunter
Long-term collaborators and Bad Education writers Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn have created a brand new series for Sky 1.
The "action adventure comedy" will see Whitehall star as a posh, young, uptight Englishman who finds himself caught up in an international adventure after accidentally buying a "blood antique" from the war-ravaged Middle East whilst taking care of his father's antiques business.
Academy Award nominee Rosie Perez has been signed up to play a bounty hunter from New York, on the run and about to come to his aid, in the Cave Bear Productions series.
Sky explain: "Barnaby Walker is sorting out his family's cash-strapped antiques business after his father is hospitalised following a mysterious accident. However, when he unwittingly buys a blood antiquity looted from the war-torn Middle East, he sets off a chain of events that nothing could prepare him for. Cue help in the shape of tough New Yorker and bounty hunter Rita Morales, whose own world is also in turmoil: she's on the run, having killed a member of a Mexican cartel."
They tease: "As the dynamic duo team up viewers will be taken on a comedy journey stretching from New York to London to Mexico."
The series is intended to be broadcast on Sky 1 later this year.
Jack Whitehall says: "We are very excited to be about to start production on Bounty Hunters for Sky 1. It's a really ambitious show which brings together my and Freddy Syborn's love of comedy and action movies, so we really hope we can pull it off. But mostly I'm excited about Rosie Perez joining us. She is an amazing actress, and I can't wait to see the Queen of Brooklyn pacing the mean streets of Wimbledon."
Adam MacDonald, director of Sky 1, said: "We can't wait to welcome Bounty Hunters to Sky 1 in 2017. With the unveiling of [the show] and its incredible cast, we're set for an exciting series full of thrills, spills and laughter when it airs exclusively on Sky 1."
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