The Agent Carter star will lead the cast of the BBC/Starz limited series production of Howards End.
We will follow Hayley Atwell anywhere, but it doesn't seem like it's going to be much of a hardship to follow her over to Starz' upcoming miniseries Howards End. The premium cable network is co-producing the period drama with the BBC and just released the first image from the TV adaptation of the 1910 E.M. Forster novel. (Seen above.)
Seen in the image is Atwell as Margaret Schlegel and Matthew Macfayden as Henry Wilcox at Simpson's-in-the-Strand restaurant. The two actors will star alongside Philippa Coulthard as Helen Schlegel in the tale of two "independent and unconventional" sisters and the men in their lives.
Check out the full synopsis:
Margaret Schlegel is an intelligent, idealistic young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox, a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond) dies unexpectedly and he becomes owner of Howards End.
Meanwhile Margaret’s passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) takes up the cause of Leonard Bast (Joseph Quinn) a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky (Rosalind Eleazar). In the absence of their late parents, the sisters’ loving but interfering Aunt Juley (Tracey Ullman) tries to keep the young ladies and their brother Tibby (Alex Lawther) on the straight and narrow.
Howards End is the first TV adaptation undertaken by Kenneth Lonergan, who has also penned the scripts for Manchester By the Sea and Gangs of New York. Hettie Macdonald, who directed fan favorite Doctor Who episode "Blink," is behind the camera. Starz/BBC is currently filming the four-episode limited series in London.
More news as we hear it.