Large Ensemble Boards ITV's THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES, Starring Sean Bean

According to Deadline, ITV has announced the full cast of its upcoming, six-part crime drama THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES, inspired by the classic story of Frankenstein and starring Sean Bean as 'Inspector John Marlott'.

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THE FRANKENSTEIN CHRONICLES begins "when Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel recruits Marlott (Bean) after a successful operation to apprehend a gang of opium smugglers. When Marlott makes the shocking discovery of a corpse that's actually a crude assembly of body parts arranged in a grotesque parody of a human form, he is tasked by Peel with tracking the perpetrator. As he investigates, Marlott discovers that what he's dealing with is more horrific than he could possibly have imagined."

In the large ensemble are: Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ed Stoppard, Elliot Cowan, Hugh O'Conor, Joe Tucker, Kate Dickie, Lalor Roddy, Patrick Fitzsymons, and Richie Campbell, along with Robbie Gee, Ryan Sampson, Samuel West, Shaun Mason, Steve Wilson, Steven Berkoff, Stuart Graham, Tom Ward and Vanessa Kirby.

Rainmark Films is producing, with co-creator Benjamin Ross as director.

Bean will next appear on the big screen in Jupiter Ascending, Pixels and The Martian. He has recently starred on TV in Legends, Missing, Game of Thrones and more.

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