![]() ![]() While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. When a troubled young man named Billy asks Cormoran Strike to help him investigate a crime he witnessed as a child, the private eye is left deeply troubled. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.įast-paced and sharply drawn, this dazzling detective novel inspired Strike, the BBC crime drama series that has captivated millions of viewers worldwide. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. ![]() The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Readers have fallen for Strike, and I think the television audience will too.After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Lucy Richer, BBC acting controller of drama, said: “Tom Burke is the perfect person to bring to life the lead character of Cormoran Strike from these investigative crime stories which are the work of a master storyteller. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with him.”Ĭharlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, and Ben Stephenson, former controller of BBC Drama Commissioning, originally ordered the show. “He’ll bring his own particular wisdom, charisma and emotional complexity to the part. ![]() “Tom Burke has all the talent, depth and versatility needed to take on the mantle of Cormoran Strike,” Kenley-Letts said. Ben Richards (“The Tunnel: Sabotage,” “Spooks”) will write “The Cuckoo’s Calling” and “The Silkworm,” and Tom Edge (“The Last Dragon Slayer,” “Lovesick”) will write “Career of Evil.” Michael Keillor (“Line of Duty,” “Critical”) will direct “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” and Jackie Larkin (“Stella Days,” “Kings”) will produce. Rowling, her agent and business partner Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts and Elizabeth Kilgarriff for the BBC will executive produce the Strike series. The adaptations build on Rowling’s relationship with the BBC that started with the 2015 miniseries “The Casual Vacancy,” which was adapted from the author’s first post-Harry Potter book as a three-parter by Sarah Phelps, with Brontë producing. “Cormoran Strike is pure joy to write, and I can’t wait to see Tom play him.” “I’m thrilled about the casting of Tom Burke, a massively talented actor who’ll bring the character to perfect life,” Rowling said. “I know I’m joining an extraordinary team of people on a series that for me is peppered with moments of real emotional depth and meticulously grounded in the page-turning momentum of these novels. ![]() “I’m overjoyed to be immersing myself in the role of Cormoran Strike, who is as complex as he is larger than life,” Burke said in a statement. ![]()
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