BINGE today released the official trailer for THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO, a six-part limited series based on Nick Cave’s cult novel of the same name, starring BAFTA and Emmy-nominated Matt Smith (The Crown, House of the Dragon) as Bunny Munro, premiering 20 November on BINGE.
Following his wife Libby’s death by suicide, sex addicted door-to-door beauty salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro (Matt Smith), finds himself saddled with his young son, Bunny Junior (played by Rafael Mathé making his television debut), 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 isn’t just fallible, he’s a fucking 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 As Bunny starts to unravel, he realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man; to save him from becoming another Bunny Munro.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 Death of Bunny Munro is both a wild cautionary tale and a tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.
Alongside Smith and Mathé, the series stars Sarah Greene (Bad Sisters, Rosie) as Libby, Johann Myers (Somewhere Boy, Without Sin) as Poodle, Robert Glenister (Sherwood, Hustle) as Geoffrey, Alice Feetham (Boiling Point, Save Me) as Yvonne, David Threlfall (Shameless, Funny Woman) as Bunny Snr, Lindsay Duncan (Truelove, The Morning Show) as Doris Pennington, and Elizabeth Berrington (Last Night in Soho, In Bruges) as Charlotte Parnovar.
The series is written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by BAFTA-nominated Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday). Australian musician, screenwriter and novelist Nick Cave serves as Executive Producer and composed the score with longtime collaborator Warren Ellis, while Matt Smith also serves as Executive Producer.
Produced by Clerkenwell Films, part of BBC Studios, in association with Sky Studios. Commissioning Editor, Manpreet Dosanjh, is Executive Producer for Sky. Petra Fried, Ed Macdonald and Emily Harrison are Executive Producers for Clerkenwell Films. Matt Smith, Nick Cave, Pete Jackson and Isabella Eklöf also serve as Executive Producers. The Producer is Matthew Mulot.