At the end of August we inform you that Apple TV + had acquired the rights to broadcast a new series under the title The Essex Serpent starring Keira Knightley. Today, we have known that for now, production will have to wait due to the resignation by the lead actress. A rejection that is based on the poor short-term prognosis of the evolution of the global pandemic in the United Kingdom.
Since March of this year 2020, many businesses, jobs and prospects have been cut off by the appearance of a virus that unfortunately is causing more than a million deaths worldwide. Many jobs and businesses have been ruined and although the "routine" is beginning to recover little by little, seven months later, the expansion of the Coronavirus is far from controlled. This makes each person take it as best they can. Some actors have returned to work and others will shortly. However others prefer to postpone their activities.
Keira Knightley has decided that it is best to wait to start production on The Essex Serpent. Which was to be the new Apple TV + series. Keira has announced through a statement presented by his representative, that due to “family situations, he does not see it appropriate to start filming the new series. due to the advance in the United Kingdom of the health pandemic caused by the Coronavirus ”.
At first production is expected to be put on hold waiting for a better situation and that Keira Knightley can join with sufficient guarantees for her own person and the entire team that will tell the story of Cora. A woman receives a widow who has to relocate from Victorian London to the small town of Aldwinter.