Maybe. Deadline says he’s set to play Investigator Marlott in the ITV six-part television series. Benjamin Ross is set to direct from a script by Barry Langford.
Set in 1827 London, the drama begins when Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel recruits Marlott after a successful operation by Thames River Police to apprehend a gang of opium smugglers. As Marlott stands on the waters edge contemplating the arrests, he makes a shocking discovery: A corpse washed up on the shore is not what it seems at first glance. Instead, its a crude assembly of body parts arranged in a grotesque parody of a human form. The mutilated child-like body leaves an indelible impression on Marlott who is tasked by Peel with tracking the perpetrator of this heinous crime. As he investigates, Marlott discovers that what hes dealing with is more horrific than he could possibly have imagined.
Ross is best known for the television movie RKO 281 starring Liev Schreiber.
