The BBC is taking a crack at adapt one of China Miéville ’s most beloved and mindbending novel , The City and The City — and our first feel gives us a bit of sixth sense into how we ’ll see two wildly unlike societies mix … even when they ’re not supposed to .
The four - part series casts The Walking Dead ’s David Morrissey as Tyador Borlú , an examiner from the city of Besźel , a worn down city - land that actually occupies the same physical space as the metropolis of Ul Qoma , a similar ( but more moneyed ) city that has a completely unlike language and cultivation . The citizens of both city are taught from childhood to consciously disregard the beingness of the other city , produce two distinguishable societies that mostly live blissfully incognizant of the other .
“ violate ” the barrier between the two metropolis by ignoring the separation is a serious law-breaking — so when a unseasoned lady friend from Ul Qoma picture up dead in Besźel , Borlú is lunge into an investigation that finds him not just enter the other city he ’s been instruct all his life to neglect , but hunt down a caption that there may even be a third city in the mix altogether .
The City and The City is one of Miéville ’s most surreal novels , so it ’s going to be interestingto see how it translates to the small screen — UK - base lover wo n’t have to wait long to find out how though , as The City and the City begins on BBC 2 April 6 . regrettably , there are no detail on if it ’ll be making its way to US shores just yet .
[ The Verge ]
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