According to The Hollywood Reporter, Braveheart alum Catherine McCormack has been tapped to star opposite Oscar winner Colin Firth in Peacock’s upcoming miniseries Lockerbie, which chronicles the aftermath of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988.
McCormack will be playing the role of Jane Swire, the wife of Firth’s Dr. Jim Swire. In addition, Firth and McCormack will also be joined by Sam Troughton as Murray Guthrie, Mark Bonnar as Roderick McGill, Andy Nyman as Edwin Bollier, Ardalan Esmaili as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and Selwa Jghalef as Aisha. Before joining Lockerbie, McCormack was last seen in the second season of Apple TV+’s spy thriller series Slow Horses.
What is Lockerbie about?
“In the wake of the disaster and his daughter Flora’s death, Dr. Jim Swire (Firth), is nominated spokesperson for the U.K. victims’ families, who have united to demand truth and justice,” reads the synopsis. “Traveling across continents and political divides, Jim embarks on a relentless journey that not only jeopardizes his stability, family and life, but completely overturns his trust in the justice system. As the truth shifts under Jim’s feet, his view of the world is left forever sullied. Exploring events from the disaster and its aftermath, Lockerbie provides an intimate account of a man, a husband, and a father who risks everything in memory of his daughter and the unflinching pursuit of truth and justice.”
Based on Swire and Peter Biddulph’s book, Lockerbie hails from writers David Harrower and Maryam Hamidi along with directors Otto Bathurst and Jim Loach. It is executive produced by Harrower, Gareth Neame, Nigel Marchant, Sam Hoyle, Liz Trubridge, Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Oskar Slingerland, with Hamidi and Kaczynski serving as producers.
Production on the five-episode miniseries is currently underway. It will be available for streaming on Peacock in the U.S. and on Sky in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
