Sky sets date for The Death of Bunny Munro

TRAILER: Matt Smith takes the title role in The Death of Bunny Munro, the upcoming adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel coming to Sky and streamer Now on November 20.

Following his wife Libby’s death by suicide, sex addicted door-to-door beauty salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro (Smith) finds himself saddled with his young son, Bunny Junior, and only a loose concept of parenting. As the two struggle to contain their grief in wildly different ways, Bunny takes Junior on the road for an increasingly out-of-control door-to-door sales tour around Brighton and the surrounding coast.

Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, while Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and grappling with the dawning realisation that his dad’s a mess. As Bunny starts to unravel, he realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man; to save him from becoming another Bunny Munro.

The six-part series is written by Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday). It is produced by Clerkenwell Films (Baby Reindeer, The End of the F***ing World) in association with Sky Studios. Cave is an executive producer, as well as composing the score alongside longtime collaborator Warren Ellis. Smith is also an executive producer.

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