State of Play- the movie and the serial
Posted on December 24, 2008
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State of Play is a British television drama serial, first broadcast on BBC One in 2003. Produced in-house by the BBC, in association with independent production company Endor Productions, it was created and written by Paul Abbott, directed by David Yates and starred David Morrissey, John Simm, Kelly Macdonald, Polly Walker, Bill Nighy, and James McAvoy.
It tells the story of a newspaper’s investigation into the death of a young woman, and centres around the relationship between the leading journalist and his old friend, the woman’s employer. The serial begins with the murder of a young man, apparently a drugs killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for Member of Parliament Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McAffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.
It ran very well in the UK and now it’s moving onto Hollywood where a movie is being based upon this.
Based on the BBC mini-series of the same title, a team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman’s mistress in the movie under production with Ben Affleck, Russell Crowe and Rachel McAdams.
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