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We chatted to Ian Hart about his on-screen reunion with David Morrissey in The Driver, Us TV, British film, Agents Of Shield and more...

You’ll know Ian Hart’s face, even if you can’t quite place his name. It’s a great face, his, adaptably young and old, as comfortable atop a tracksuit as it is underneath a period trilby. Since his first real role as Scouse tearaway Rabbit in 1983 drama One Summer (alongside childhood friend and The Driver co-star David Morrissey), Hart has avoided type-casting by leaping from role to role and film to film with convincing ease. He’s played scallies, authors, footballers, drug dealers, psychiatrists, CIA agents, physicists and nineteenth century gangsters. He’s played Beethoven, Nobby Stiles, Hitler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Voldemort (sort of), and John Lennon (thrice).

Three-part BBC One drama The Driver saw Hart play twins Col and Craig, one an...

The Irish born actor Jonas Armstrong will star alongside David Morrissey (The Reaping, Blitz), Peter Capaldi (In the Loop, The Thick of It) and Jayd Johnson (River City) in BBC hour long drama 'The Field of Blood'. Written and directed by David Kane (This Year's Love, Born Romantic), 'The Field of Blood' is a crime drama adapted from Denise Mina's novel of the same name.

LONDON -- U.K.-based Myriad Pictures Ltd., the London production and sales arm of Los Angeles-based Myriad Pictures said Monday that it has pacted with Canadian production company imX communications, headed by president Christopher Zimmer, to co-produce The River King. The deal, announced by Myriad president Kirk D'Amico, sees the two companies uniting to finance and produce the Nick Willing-directed project, billed as a supernatural murder mystery starring Edward Burns (Confidence). Willing most recently directed Hypnotic. Based on Alice Hoffman's novel of the same name, the movie will be made through U.K.-based Grosvenor Park's First Choice Films from a screenplay by David Kane (Born Romantic). Shooting is scheduled to start in the spring in Canada.