BBC Three Heading Out To Sea For The Horror Comedy Series “Wrecked”

BBC Three is heading out to sea for the upcoming horror-comedy series “Wrecked,” set to begin filming in Northern Ireland this year, Variety reports.
 
“The six-part series is set aboard a mega cruise ship. It follows 19-year-old new recruit Jamie as he joins the crew in search of his missing sister. She was working aboard the same vessel on a previous tour and never made it home. Jamie is initiated into cruise life and gets a crash course on the teen tribes within the staff who party hard and remain oblivious to the bloodthirsty murders taking place on board. Jamie is forced to turn detective and uncover the sinister truth.”
 
Ryan J. Brown, who wrote “Wrecked,” told Variety, “In Wrecked, the kills are brutal, the laughs are loud, and the heartfelt moments land with real candor. I wanted to create a piece of genre entertainment that had the savvy teen sharpness of Scream, the unsettling atmosphere of The Shining, and the strange upstairs, downstairs mythology of Cabin in the Woods. At its core, Wrecked is a tense coming-of-age story about a lost, gay kid from Sheffield propelled into uncharted waters of escalating paranoia and self-discovery.”
 
The series will be produced for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer by Euston Films, part of Fremantle, and executive produced by Noemi Spanos for Euston Films and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC.
 
Spanos said Brown has a “wildly distinctive voice,” he added: “His blend of comedy, horror and coming of age storytelling has had us laughing, crying and terrified in equal measures throughout the development process and we can’t wait to realize Ryan’s unique vision and tone on screen.”