JACK O'CONNELL TO FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AGAINST COLIN FARRELL IN BBC'S ARCTIC SET 19TH CENTURY EPIC SERIES THE NORTH WATER! BOYD HOLBROOK, KELLY REILLY, ALISTAIR PETRIE IN VICTORIAN HORROR EIGHT FOR SILVER

British BBC has revealed today the lead star for their new Arctic set 19th century epic TV saga THE NORTH WATER: Jack O'Connell has joined

Jack O'Connell starts shooting this Autumn

Colin Farrell in the cast. The series will have four episodes (with a 90 minute opening one) with the story based on the critically acclaimed novel from Ian McGuire!

THE NORTH WATER, set in the UK and the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, tells the story of Patrick Sumner (Jack O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the Arctic. On board he meets Henry Drax (Colin Farrell), the harpooner, a brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past,

Colin Farrell will play the psychopathic villain in the new series

Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

which,  set in the 19th century countryside of France, follows John McBride (Boyd Holbrook), a pathologist assigned to determine if the body of a 14 year old boy found in the woods is the work of a man or a beast. McBride is then welcomed as a guest into the family home of a local wealthy landowner, Seamus Laurent (Alistair Petrie), and his wife Isabelle (Kelly Reilly), who share that their own son, a friend of the victim, has been missing for two weeks. Distraught and determined to keep her daughter safe, Isabelle finds

comfort in the arrival of John while he is forced to confront the horrors of his own dark past. Sean Ellis is directing.