Starring alongside Nick Frost

Aisling Bea and Nick Frost are to star in a crime-thriller movie described as ‘Fargo in England’

Sweet Dreams is about ‘a series of unfortunate coincidences that bring the overreaching ambitions of a bunch of petty criminals to a nasty end’ according to industry website Deadline.

Niamh Algar from The Virtues will play a police chief while the cast also includes Paapa Essiedu from Gangs Of London and I May Destroy You.

It will be written and directed by  Carl Tibbets, who has previously shot episodes of Black Mirror and Humans.

He told Deadline: ‘Sweet Dreams is Pulp Fiction in Martin Parr’s England. An action-packed pitch-black ensemble crime-thriller. Think No Country For Old Men, Fargo in England, and In Bruges and Shallow Grave. Funny, dark, violent and heartwarming; it has it all.’

Stigma Films will be touting the film at the Cannes virtual market, which kicks off later this month.

Published: 10 Jun 2020