Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson have been cast in Apple TV+’s upcoming adaptation of Mick Herron’s Down Cemetery Road.

Slow Horses producers 60Forty Films are staying in the Mick Herron business as they announce an adaptation of Down Cemetery Road. Thompson and Wilson will star and Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks will serve as lead writer, with Natalie Bailey serving as lead director. Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Banks, Thompson and Herron will serve as executive producers.

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbour Sarah Tucker Wilson) becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson). Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

“Down Cemetery Road has all the hallmarks of Mick Herron’s funny and acerbic writing, and I’m delighted we will be bringing it to life for Apple TV+ with such a stellar cast,” said Jay Hunt, creative director of, Apple TV+, Europe. “Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson will make it an unmissable companion piece for Slow Horses on our service.”

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