OTTO BATHURST ANEIL KARIA

FRESH FROM THIS YEAR’S OSCARS, WHERE HE WON BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM FOR THE LONG GOODBYE – a collaboration with The Night Of star Riz Ahmed – Karia is now set to helm The Gold. A BBC and Paramount+ coproduction, the six-part series will dramatise the true events surrounding the robbery of the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, when six men stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m (US$32.3m) in 1983. Karia directs alongside Lawrence Gough, while the cast includes Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia and Stefanie Martini. Karia’s previous work includes Lovesick, Pure and Top Boy