When it became known in 2019 that Peter Morgan had hired her to play Princess Diana in The Crown, Emma Corrin immediately became a celebrity, and when the fourth season of the series finally premiered on Netflix, it became clear that the great British screenwriter and director had not been wrong. Corrin managed to capture the essence of the tragic royal figure and for that work she won a Golden Globe, in addition to other notable awards.
Logically, proposals flooded her, and since then the 27-year-old Briton has starred in a new adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover also for Netflix, and had a supporting role in My Police, in which Harry Styles was the main attraction. And although next year he will be seen in blockbusters such as the new Deadpool and a new adaptation of Nosferatu, the best opportunity for Corrin to increase his stardom is a leading role in a new miniseries, Murder at the End of the World, which in The United States has produced F/X and in Spain Disney will premiere next Tuesday.
An original story from the creative duo of Britt Marling and Zal Batmanglij, who previously brought us the unusual The OA, the new proposal does not hide its inspiration from the stories of Agatha Christie or the influence of science-fiction film hits such as Ex -Machina.
Corrin plays Darby Hart, an amateur detective who has used her investigation into a serial killer to write a book, which has made her famous. That celebrity is what gets him a place on a multi-day retreat in a place far from the world, organized by a billionaire (Clive Owen) and to which other pioneers of science, technology and culture have been invited. Those chosen come from all over the world and are played by the Brazilian Alice Braga, the Chinese Joan Chen, the Mexican-American Raúl Esparza, the Iranian Pegah Reydoni and the Americans Jermaine Fowler and Edoardo Ballerini.
In the luxurious hotel in the middle of the snow that they inaugurate with their visit, and where artificial intelligence and holograms are the order of the day, everything is going wonderfully well until one of them dies violently. From that moment on, Darby will become a female version of Hercule Poirot, and in that place far from the world she will try to discover who the murderer is.
A special role has the also British Harris Dickinson, who plays Bill, Darby's mysterious lover and adventure partner in the beginning, who disappeared one day, only to reappear years later as another of the guests at the retreat. Another key place has been reserved for Marling, owner of an outstanding career as an actress, which includes several independent films and the lead role in The OA.
The co-writer, who was also responsible for directing several episodes, here plays Clive Owen's wife and mother of his son. In a long interview published by Variety, Brit and Zal revealed that it took them four years of work to develop the story, and that at some point they erased everything they had written and started over. The two have known each other since they were university students, and they started together in independent cinema with Sound of my voice, not released in Spain, in 2012. And although today they are successful screenwriters, they continue to maintain some customs from their early days.
Although the series was filmed in Iceland, Utah and New Jersey, to achieve everything they set out to do they had to cut costs: “We didn't have the money to build the entire hotel on the set, so we only did half of it,” Marling confessed in the interview, adding that they simply changed the sets during filming to make it feel like it was a complete building.
