First look at ‘Get Millie Black’

"Produced by Motive Pictures (The Woman in The Wall) first look images have been released for Get Millie Black, a vivid, unflinching, and gripping five-part crime noir and the screenwriting debut of Booker Prize award-winning author Marlon James, which is coming to Channel 4 next year, co-produced by HBO.

Starring Tamara Lawrance, Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, and Chyna McQueen, Get Millie Black follows the inimitable Millie-Jean Black, a police detective who quits Scotland Yard to return home to Jamaica, where she is soon pursuing a missing persons case that threatens to expose more than she may be willing to confront.

Get Millie Black is a deeply personal and wholly authentic version of Kingston, which has never been seen on screen before. Told through the unique perspective of Millie (Tamara Lawrance) – a girl born on the Rock, raised in London, who claims to be both British and Jamaican, Millie yet somehow belongs to neither place. It is a story peopled by a host of unforgettable characters; ‘gully queen’ Hibiscus (Chyna McQueen), her brilliant partner on the Jamaican Police Force, Curtis (Gershwyn Eustache Jnr), who is forced to keep his love life secret from his colleagues; game-playing Scotland Yard Inspector Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie); and Hit Girl (Dorothy ‘Patra’ Smith), go-go-club owner and underworld entrepreneur..."