Anne Nikitin (American Animals, Mrs. Wilson, Calibre, This Beautiful Fantastic) has been tapped to score the upcoming BBC and Amazon limited series The Pale Horse. The 2-parter is developed by Sarah Phelps (The ABC Murders, And Then There Were None) and stars Rufus Sewell, Kaya Scodelario, Bertie Carvel, Sean Pertwee, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Poppy Gilbert, Madeleine Bowyer, Ellen Robertson, Rita Tushingham, Sheila Atim and Kathy Kiera Clarke. The series is based on the novel of the same title by Agathan Christie and follows a man whose investigation into the mystery of a list of names found on a dead woman leads him to a English village, Much Deeping, the home of a trio of rumored witches. Phelps is also executive producing the Mammoth Screen production with Damien Timmer (Poldark, Vanity Fair) & Helen Ziegler (Endeavour, World on Fire), Agatha Christie Limited’s James Prichard & Basi Akpabio (Ordeal by Innocence) and Tommy Bulfin (Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty) for BBC. Leonora Lonsdale is directing the drama. The Pale Horse will premiere in 2020 in the UK on BBC One and in the U.S. on Amazon Prime.
As previously reported, Nikitin also has the British family fantasy adventure Four Kids and It, the Netflix original movie Lost Girls and the British drama Sulphur and White coming up.
