Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen To Lead Cast Of You Are Here

Matthew Macfadyen (Succession, Pride & Prejudice) and Claire Foy (All of Us Strangers, The Crown) are set to star in You Are Here, a BBC and Starz adaptation of author David Nicholls’ best-selling novel of the same name.

Nicholls, who is best known for his novels and screen adaptations of One Day and Starter for Ten, has also penned the eight-part series. Lenny Abrahamson (Normal People, Room) is on board to direct, with Element Pictures producing.

Set along the Coast to Coast walking trail from the Lake District to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire, You Are Here will be filmed in the Lake District and around Manchester, according to the BBC.

Macfadyen and Foy will lead the cast as Michael and Marnie, who are paired together by a mutual friend before embarking on an epic coast-to-coast walk across the English countryside. “Against the odds, they end up on the brink of a relationship that neither was looking for, but which might be exactly the one they both need,” the logline reads.

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“Matthew and Claire are both just dream casting, wonderful in comedy and drama, so detailed and thoughtful and sympathetic,” said Nicholls in a press release from the BBC. “The intention with the novel was to write a close-up study of a relationship, but set against this magnificent landscape, and that’s our ambition here too; to make something both intimate and epic, funny and dramatic, a romantic comedy with real emotion. We can’t wait to bring Marnie and Michael’s journey to the screen.”

Nicholls’ additional writing credits include 2005’s The Understudy, 2014’s Us, and 2019’s Sweet Sorrow, as well as screenwriting credits for Anad Tucker’s 2007 And When Did You Last See Your Father?, which was an adaptation of Blake Morrison’s memoir of the same name from 1993.

An air date for the series has not been announced yet.