Doctor Foster star Bertie Carvel and Ant-Man's Corey Stoll have joined Channel 4's new crime thriller Baghdad Central.
Currently shooting in Morocco and set over six episodes, the show will take place in 2003 as US forces are occupying Baghdad territory.
With the Iraqi army, police and civil leadership disbanded, this means there's effectively no rule of law, leaving the capital city to exist as a chaotic swamp of paranoia and crime.
The story follows a local ex-policeman named Muhsin al-Khafaji (played by Altered Carbon's Waleed Zuaiter) who goes in search of his missing daughter.
As it turns out, she's been leading a hidden life and is in grave danger. This leads Muhsin into an alliance with Carvel's Frank Temple, a character looking to rebuild the Iraqi police force.
Stoll will portray an upstanding American military police captain, with Utopia's Neil Maskell on-board for a "terrifying and sinister" role, according to Channel 4.
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Along with its international cast, Baghdad Central is being directed by Doctor Who and Tin Star's Alice Troughton, followed by Humans' Ben A Williams taking over on several episodes.
The project is being adapted from a novel written by Elliott Colla.
Meanwhile, Carvel has previously explained his approach to playing on-screen villains, noting: "I've made a career out of playing characters some people might describe as villains, social pariahs. My approach is to make them human beings."
Baghdad Central will see him stretching his more heroic muscles.
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