Noah Taylor in the Spierig Bros' Predestination.
Noah Taylor and Orange is the New Black's Yael Stone will star in SBS’s new four-part crime drama series, Deep Water, produced by Blackfella Films.
Joining them in the crime thriller are Stone's husband Dan Spielman (The Code, Accidental Soldier, Offspring), William McInnes (The Time of Our Lives, The Slap), Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Craig McLachlan (The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Ben Oxenbould (The Kettering Incident, Old School, Rake), Simon Burke (Devil’s Playground), John Brumpton (Catching Milat, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) and others.
SBS are billing Deep Water as its first "cross-genre, cross-platform event which will include a four-part drama series, a feature documentary and unique online web series and content".
The series is executive produced by SBS’s Sue Masters, produced by Blackfella Films’ Miranda Dear and Darren Dale and written by Kris Wyld (East West 101) and Kym Goldsworthy (Love Child, Serangoon Road).
Dear and Dale said they were “absolutely delighted to have the immense talents of Noah Taylor and Yael Stone joining forces with a superb supporting cast for this gripping crime thriller set in the melting pot of Australia’s most iconic beachside suburb” [Bondi].
The show will be directed by Shawn Seet (Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door, The Code), shot by DoP Bruce Young (The Code, INXS: Never Tear Us Apart), with production design by Felicity Abbott (Secret City, Redfern Now, Alex and Eve), costume design by Damir Peranovic (Gods of Egypt, Truth, A Place to Call Home) and hair and makeup by Dalia Fernandez (Ready for This, Redfern Now).
Stone and Taylor play detectives assigned a brutal murder case who begin to uncover evidence which suggests the killing is connected to a spate of unexplained deaths, apparent suicides and disappearances in the 80's and 90s.
Haunted by the disappearance of her teenage brother, Stone's character soon becomes obsessed with the case, as more ritualistic murders occur with the same bizarre signature.
Blackfella Films are producing with the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW, with DCD Rights handling international sales.
The series will air on SBS later this year.