Here’s a hot new transatlantic project to start 2021: The Morning Show star Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set to be cast as the lead in a BBC adaptation of JP Delaney’s best-selling psychological thriller The Girl Before.
Deadline can reveal that 42, the UK production outfit behind Netflix’s The English Game and the Emmy-winning BBC/Netflix animation Watership Down, is behind the four-part BBC One series, which will shoot this year. The Girl Before originally was optioned for a feature by Universal Pictures in 2015, with Ron Howard attached to direct, but now looks set to make its screen debut on television in 2021.
The Girl Before follows Jane, a traumatized woman who falls in love with an extraordinary minimalist house, which remains under the spell of the architect who originally designed it. But when she discovers that another damaged woman died in the same One Folgate Street property three years earlier, she starts to wonder if her own story is just a rerun of the girl before.
British actress Mbatha-Raw will play Jane in what represents her latest eye-catching role. Following the success of The Morning Show, in which she played an ambitious breakfast-TV guest booker, she was cast in Apple TV+ series Surface, which comes from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine. She is attached to Blood Ties, an Aaron Katz (Gemini)-directed drama based on a Nathan Heller New Yorker article. She can next be seen in Disney+’s Marvel series also Loki, which premieres in May, and feature Seacole. [more at source]
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I’ve updated the gallery with high quality screencaptures of Gugu in her newest movie Summerland. The movie is available on VOD in the US & other selected countries and will be available in the UK in August.




Misbehaviour was released yesterday on most VOD services online. I’ve updated the gallery with high quality screencaptures of Gugu looking like the true queen she is.




Sorry for the delay everyone but I was waiting for a better quality video and it never came. I’ve updated the gallery with over 2000 high quality screencaptures of Gugu in her movie Irreplaceable You.








I’ve updated the gallery with high quality stills & screencaptures of Gugu in her newest released movie The Cloverfield Paradox that you can stream on Netflix world wide. Gugu did an amazing job in the movie and it was great to see her in a new genre.








2018 – The Cloverfield Paradox > Movie Screencaptures
I’ve updated the gallery with the newly released production stills & poster of Gugu in her new Netflix movie Irreplaceable You.








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