Sky has launched the official trailer for the five-part restricted occasion sequence Possession, previously referred to as Inheritance. Created and written by Karla Crome (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen) and directed by Storm Saulter (Better Mus’ Come, Sprinter), the supernatural thriller is ready between Bristol and Jamaica and stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki, Surface), Jonny Lee Miller (The Crown, Elementary), Sheldon Shepherd (Bob Marley: One Love, Better Mus’ Come) and Bel Powley (A Small Light, The Morning Show).
Claudia (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an formidable younger mixed-race lawyer, travels to Jamaica to problem an inheritance declare made by a neighborhood man, Cudjoe East (Sheldon Shepherd), towards Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller), a rich white aristocrat. But the case takes an unsettling flip when Claudia discovers that the disputed property is the very place that has haunted her nightmares: Hope Hill, the Connaught household’s former plantation.
As Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing hyperlink between the plantation’s brutal previous and the injustices nonetheless shaping the current.
Possession is a gripping supernatural thriller that blends eerie thriller with the colourful power of Jamaica, following one lady’s journey into long-buried secrets and techniques, identification and the previous’s enduring maintain on the current.
Alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jonny Lee Miller and Sheldon Shepherd, the sequence additionally stars Bel Powley as Charlotte, Nadean Rawlins (Bob Marley: One Love, Sprinter) as Mercy, Sean Gilder (Mary & George, Slow Horses) as Tom McKenzie, Olunike Adeliyi (The Fire Inside, Mike) as Patsy Dawkins, Richard Dillane (Wolf Hall, The Crown) as Eugene Desfrienes, Diveen Henry (The Day of the Jackal, Manhunt) as Flora, Jack Bandeira (Happy Valley, Black Mirror) as Kenneth Connaught, Shantol Jackson (Death in Paradise, Yardie) as Sarah, Jeff Crossley (Bob Marley: One Love, Sprinter) as Angelo and Safina Simpson as Betina.
Series Credits
Possession is produced by Snowed-In in affiliation with Sky Studios. Written and created by Karla Crome, the sequence is based mostly on an authentic story created by Jefferson Bannis and directed by Storm Saulter. Executive Producers are Ruth Kenley-Letts, Jenny van der Lande, Neil Blair, Karla Crome, Storm Saulter, Sam Hoyle, Serena Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Jonny Lee Miller. The Development Producer is Roxanne Harvey and the Series Producer is Kate Ogborn. The sequence will likely be obtainable on Sky in the UK and Ireland. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution is dealing with worldwide gross sales of the sequence.
