Marisa Tomei, Kelly Macdonald, and David Harewood will lead season two of Sky and HBO‘s returning legal drama War, ahead of the show’s season one launch.
Following a two-season order and created by Hijack‘s George Kay, War follows two of London’s most prestigious rival firms — Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne — as they go head-to-head in a series of headline-making legal battles. “Each side is certain they’ll win. But as cases spiral and loyalties fracture, reputations are on the line, and everyone’s playing to win,” a plot synopsis reads.
The first installment, led by Sienna Miller and Dominic West, is set to debut later this year. It’ll follow the high-profile divorce case between tech titan Morgan Henderson (West) and international film star Carla Duval (Miller).
Season two will see the rival law firms take on an explosive defamation case. Spider-Man Tomei stars as Avery Reed and No Country for Old Men‘s Kelly Macdonald as Jo MacNeil, alongside David Harewood (Homeland) as Jefferson Allen, and Richard Schiff as Elliott Wyatt.
Joining them are Claire Skinner, Omari Douglas, Kadiff Kirwan, Douglas Booth, Charles Edwards, Luca Pasqualino, Rebecca Front, Alexandra Maria Lara, Linus Roache, Violet Braeckman, Sasha Behar, Sid Phoenix, Cornelius Booth and Megan Channell.
War is co-produced by New Pictures (Catherine the Great, Gone) and Kay’s Observatory Pictures (Gone), in association with Sky and HBO.
Kay is lead writer, with additional episodes written by Kelly Jones, Jess Brittain, Catherine Shepherd, Yemi Oyefuwa and Krissie Ducker. The series’ lead director is Ben Taylor.
War will air on Sky and streaming service NOW in the U.K., Ireland and Italy, and on Sky and WOW in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It will air on HBO and HBO Max in the U.S., and stream on HBO Max in Australia and Asia. International sales of the series will be handled by NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution.
