The Academy Award winner will play campaigner and grieving father Dr Jim Swire in the production.
Dr Swire and wife Jane led the campaign for an inquiry into the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 after their daughter Flora was among 270 people killed in the tragedy.The series is based on the book, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father's Search For Justice by Dr Swire and Peter Biddulph.
The five-part series Lockerbie will explore Dr Swire's fight for action and being nominated as a spokesperson for the victims' families through the UK Families Flight 103 group, and look at the disaster and its aftermath.Scottish playwright David Harrower, known for the play Blackbird, is the lead writer and Otto Bathurst, who won a Bafta for BBC period crime drama Peaky Blinders, is lead director.
Firth, who won an Academy Award and Bafta for playing George VI in The King's Speech in 2010, was pictured on set alongside other actors portraying police officers and soldiers.The BBC and Netflix announced in July that they had commissioned World Productions to make a separate six-part drama about the bombing.
Novelist and screenwriter Jonathan Lee, who wrote High Dive, is lead writer and Michael Keillor, who worked on Line Of Duty, Roadkill and Chimerica, will direct., sitting at a special court set up at a former US military base, Camp Zeist, in the Netherlands in 2001 and was imprisoned in Scotland.Megrahi returned to Libya where he died in 2012. His family, and some relatives of the bombing victims, believe he suffered a miscarriage of justice.
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