Jed Mercurio is behind a few of the UK’s most profitable dramas, and now it’s being reported that he’s creating a brand new sequence based mostly on the story of the nation’s most infamous baby serial killer.
Nurse Lucy Letby was jailed for all times final 12 months after being convicted of murdering seven infants and making an attempt to homicide six others, all of whom the place in her care as a neonatal hospital nurse.
Now The Solar newspaper experiences that Mercurio – who was a hospital physician earlier than he turned to screenwriting and beforehand created medical present Our bodies earlier than his hit reveals Bodyguard and Line of Responsibility – is planning a brand new drama telling the stunning story. The newspaper speculates that Sophie Turner (previously of Recreation of Thrones) and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) are each within the body for the lead position.
The Solar quotes an business insider saying: “Jed sees this as an essential story that ought to not simply be chronicled in a drama but in addition explored.
“It goals to attempt to clarify how her crimes may have gone on for thus lengthy and the way others — significantly [hospital paediatrician and whistleblower] Dr Jayaram — tried to behave when suspicions had been raised.
“Bagging a high-profile title to play Letby would assist give the present the eye it deserves too, nevertheless it’s not a task to take frivolously.”
Letby is serving a life sentence for her crimes which befell between June 2015 and June 2016. Suspicions had been raised following a excessive variety of toddler deaths which befell within the neonatal unit the Countess of Chester Hospital, shortly after Letby started working within the hospital’s intensive care unit. She was arrested and charged with eight counts of homicide and ten counts of tried homicide in November 2020.
Deadline has reached out to Jed Mercurio for remark.