Peaky Blinders star Sam Claflin and The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco are teaming up for Vanished, a drama which promises “intrigue and danger”.
As per Deadline, the pair will be joined by Karin Viard and Matthias Schweighöfer in the series, which follows a woman (Cuoco) as she investigates the disappearance of her boyfriend (Claflin).
Produced by AGC Television, Vanished will be directed by Barnaby Thompson (St Trinian’s, Pixie), with Stuart Ford serving as a producer. Production is due to get underway next month (April 28), with filming taking place in Paris and Marseille.
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“When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew,” reads the logline.
Claflin, who played Oswald Mosley in BBC’s Peaky Blinders, shot to fame for his part as Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series, with his subsequent credits including Enola Holmes and Daisy Jones & the Six.
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Cuoco, who also starred in The Flight Attendant, played Penelope “Penny” Hofstadter in all 12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory before its conclusion in 2019, with the sitcom running for 279 episodes in total.
Despite the character becoming a fan-favourite, co-creator Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros Television Group chairman Peter Roth recently revealed that they initially had trouble making the character more three-dimensional.
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“We had so many episodes to go before we started to understand that there was a brilliance to Penny's character that we had not explored,” said Lorre. “We did the very clichéd – in the beginning – goofy blonde who says foolish things.
“It was a clichéd character, the dumb blonde. We missed it. We didn't have that right away – that what she brought to this story, to these other characters, was an intelligence that they didn't have. A kind of intelligence that was alien to them – about people and relationships and family.”
