Trailer For Steven Knight's ROGUE HEROES Series Focuses on The Formation Special Forces SAS Unit
Epix has released a trailer for its upcoming series Rogue Heroes, which tells the story of the formation of the special forces unit, the Special Air Service (SAS). The show looks great and it comes from writer Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders and Taboo) and director Tom Shankland (The Serpent, The Missing). I’ve been looking forward to this show and I like what I’m seeing in this first trailer.
Rogue Heroes is “a dramatized account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the Special Air Service (SAS), was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War II. Based on Ben Macintyre’s best-selling book of the same name, the series centers on David Stirling, an eccentric young officer who is hospitalized after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units don’t work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare. He fights for permission to recruit the toughest, boldest, and brightest soldiers for a small undercover unit that will create mayhem behind enemy lines. More rebels than soldiers, Stirling’s team is every bit as complicated, flawed, and reckless as it is brave and heroic.”
The cast includes Connor Swindells (Sex Education, Vigil), Jack O’Connell (Skins, The North Water), Alfie Allen (Jojo Rabbit, Game of Thrones) and Sofia Boutella (Modern Love, Atomic Blonde).
Commissioned by the BBC, the series will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK as SAS: Rogue Heroes. The series will premiere this fall.