The BBC is filming a feature-length drama about the remarkable true story of one of the world’s first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra that reconnects It is a sin Russell T Davies with Nicola Shindler.
Shindler’s Quay Street and the Welsh indie boom are behind it men up, with Ivan Rheon (Game of Thrones, misfits, riviera), aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk, The Pact), Alexandra Roach and Steffan Rhodri (home of the dragon) and written by Matthew Barry. Davies and Shindler are EPs.
Years before the little blue pill changed the lives of millions of people around the world, a group of ordinary middle-aged Welsh men experienced the extraordinary and took part in one of the first clinical trials for an unknown drug that later became Viagra. This group of men had one thing in common: impotence and lived their lives immersed in shame and silence before being offered a lifeline.
In association with BBC Wales, men up is Quay Street’s first open job for the BBC, having already bagged a trio of ITV programmes Nolly, significant other And after the flood, the first was also written by Doctor who Showrunner Davies.
“Who would have thought that in 1994 Swansea would have one of the world’s first Viagra trials,” says Barry, who also worked with Shindler and Davies on the 2015 Channel 4 drama. banana. “I’m really looking forward to working with Nicola, Russell and the whole team to bring this extraordinary story to the big screen.”
men up Directed by Ashley Way (White lines, Stella, Merlin) and produced by Karen Lewis (The Salisbury poisonings). Executive producers are Shindler and Davina Count (safe) for Quay Street Productions, Rachel Evans (35 Diwrnod/35 days, like that blind girl…) for Boom, Barry, Davies and Rebecca Ferguson for the BBC.
The drama has been supported by the Welsh Government through Creative Wales and is being produced in association with Cineflix Rights as exclusive worldwide distributor.
Source: Deadline
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