BBC teams Matthew Rhys and Jamie Dornan for Death and Nightingales limited series

The Hollywood Reporter

Rhys, coming off of The Americans, will join Fifty Shades of Grey star Dornan in the three-part series based on Eugene McCabe’s 1992 novel. Set over a 24-hour period, Death and Nightingales "is a story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful haunting countryside of Northern Ireland in 1885," according to The Hollywood Reporter. "A place where neighbors observe each other and inform, a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom." The project reunites Dornan and The Fall creator Allan Cubitt, who is adapting the book and directing the miniseries.