Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings veteran Sean Bean has joined the cast of BBC One’s upcoming World War II drama series World on Fire. The seven-episode season will see Bean alongside Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets) and Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) with Peter Bowker (The A Word) writing the series.
World on Fire is a multi-stranded drama that looks at World War II through the eyes of ordinary people from all sides of the conflict. The season will follow first year of the war starting with the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and ending with the Battle of Britain. Adam Smith will direct the first three episodes.
“I am thrilled to be part of this ambitious drama,” said Bean. “Peter Bowker’s study of the human stories that thread through this huge global conflict is fascinating and something I look forward to being part of on screen.”
The cast also includes Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Yrsa Daley-Ward (Today Will Burn), Ansu Kabia (The Long Song), Ewan Mitchell (The Last Kingdom), Zofia Wichłacz (Warsaw 44), Brian J. Smith (Sense8), Parker Sawyers (The Autopsy of Jane Doe), Tomasz Kot (Cold War), Bruno Alexander (Eden), Johannes Zeiler (Faust) and Eugénie Derouand (Genius).
