This Is England director Shane Meadows is set to reunite with actors Michael Socha and Thomas Turgoose on The Gallows Pole, a historical drama series based upon the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers.
Socha and Turgoose will star alongside a cast that includes George MacKay (1917), Tom Burke (Mank), Sophie McShera (Cinderella), Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey), Yusra Warsama (Castle Rock), Eve Burley (Secret State), Nicole Barber Lane (Hollyoaks), Samuel Edward-Cook (Peaky Blinders), Anthony Welsh (Master of None), Joe Sproulle (The A Word), Adam Fogerty (Legend), Fine Time Fontayne (How We Used to Live) and an ensemble of first-time actors.
The Gallows Pole “fictionalises the remarkable true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire, the compelling drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley played by Michael Socha, as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history.”
Filming on The Gallows Pole is underway now in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, with A24, Element Pictures and the BBC producing.
