A first look at Matt Smith in the title role of Sky's Nick Cave adaptation.
Sky has today released a first look image from their upcoming six-part limited series, The Death of Bunny Munro, which is based on Nick Cave’s cult novel of the same name.
Following his wife Libby’s death by suicide, sex addicted, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting.
Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.
As Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and distracting himself from the dawning realisation that his dad isn’t just fallible—he’s a complete mess.
As he starts to unravel, Bunny realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man.
The Death of Bunny Munro is both a wild cautionary tale and a tender portrait of a father and son.
Matt Smith stars in the titular role alongside newcomer Rafael Mathé, who plays Bunny Junior. It'll also star Sarah Greene as Libby, Johann Myers as Poodle, Robert Glenister as Geoffrey, Alice Feetham as Yvonne, David Threlfall as Bunny Snr, Lindsay Duncan as Doris Pennington and Elizabeth Berrington as Charlotte Parnovar.
Written by Pete Jackson and based on Nick Cave’s sophomore novel, The Death of Bunny Munro will be directed by Isabella Eklöf, produced. by Matthew Mulot and made by Clerkenwell Films in association with Sky Studios.
Musician, screenwriter and novelist Nick Cave will serve as Executive Producer alongside Manpreet Dosanjh for Sky Studios and Petra Fried, Ed Macdonald and Emily Harrison for Clerkenwell films. Matt Smith, Pete Jackson and Isabella Eklöf also serve as Executive Producers.
The Death of Bunny Munro will air in 2025 on Sky Atlantic
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