Doctor Who’s Matt Smith to star in series based on Nick Cave novel

Sky has released the trailer for its upcoming six-part limited event series The Death of Bunny Munro, starring BAFTA and Emmy nominee Matt Smith.

Based on Nick Cave’s 2009 novel of the same name, the series has been adapted for television by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday).

The show is produced by Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End of the F**ing World) in association with Sky Studios.

Cave serves as executive producer and co-composer of the score alongside longtime collaborator Warren Ellis, while Smith also takes on an executive producer role.

The series follows Bunny Munro, a sex-addicted door-to-door beauty salesman whose life spirals after the suicide of his wife, Libby. Left to care for his young son, Bunny Junior (played by newcomer Rafael Mathé), he embarks on an increasingly chaotic sales trip around Brighton and the surrounding coast. As Bunny chases fleeting encounters and Junior speaks to the ghost of his mother, both are forced to confront their grief and the fractured relationship between them.

The cast also includes Sarah Greene (Bad Sisters), Johann Myers (Somewhere Boy), Robert Glenister (Sherwood), Alice Feetham (Boiling Point), David Threlfall (Shameless), Lindsay Duncan (Truelove), and Elizabeth Berrington (In Bruges).

The Death of Bunny Munro is described as both a darkly comic cautionary tale and a portrait of a father-son bond tested by loss and self-destruction.

The series premieres November 20 on Sky and NOW.

Watch the trailer for The Death of Bunny Munro below: