Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer is a twisted head mistress in the first look at Amazon Prime Video's Picnic at Hanging Rock limited series.
The alluring series adapts Joan Lindsay's famed novel of the same name about the sudden disappearance of female students from an Australian boarding school. Have a look at the trailer:
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Dormer takes a villainous turn the school's headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard, who has sinister reasons for wanting all of the missing girls to be found alive.
What led up to the girls' disappearance and their motivation for running away are the central mysteries of Picnic at Hanging Rock, which has been adapted by Beatrix Christian and Alice Addison.
Hanging Rock was famously adapted for the big screen once before by influencial Australian filmmaker Peter Weir back in 1975, with This Sporting Life's Rachel Roberts playing the Hester Appleyard role in that version.
The novel has also been previously adapted for BBC Radio 4, and turned into a stage musical that ran at Lincoln Centre in New York City back in 2007.
The extended cast for the limited series version of Hanging Rock includes Orange Is the New Black's Yael Stone, formerHome and Away cast member Samara Weaving, All Saints' Sibylla Budd and Romper Stomper star Lily Sullivan.
Picnic at Hanging Rock will begin streaming on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 25 in the US. The BBC will air the series on telly later in the year.
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