Nick Cave’s bad boy Bunny comes to life for a six-part streaming series, The Death of Bunny Munro, the first trailer for which has dropped online.
BAFTA and Emmy-nominated Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown, House of the Dragon) takes the lead as Munro, a slippery door-to-door salesman on a road trip with his young son, played by Rafael Mathé in his television debut, following the death of his wife by suicide.
In the new clip, Bunny takes Junior on the road for a eventful sales trek around Brighton and the surrounding coast, an area familiar to Cave, the Australian-born alternative rock legend who has called the English seaside home for some decades.
“My dad,” says Bunny Junior in the trailer, “he’s the best salesman in the world.” The youngster doesn’t know the half of it.
Cuts of Jarvis Cocker’s “Black Magic,” and Cave’s “Bright Horses” soundtrack the clip, which can be seen in full below.
Following Libby’s death, Munro, a sex addicted beauty product salesman and “self-professed lothario” finds himself “saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting,” reads a plot synopsis from Sky.
“Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.”
First published in 2009, The Death of Bunny Munro is Cave’s second novel after And the Ass Saw the Angel from 1989.
The forthcoming series was written by BAFTA winner Pete Jackson (Somewhere Boy) and directed by BAFTA-nominated Isabella Eklöf (Industry, Holiday), with an original score by Cave and his longtime collaborator Warren Ellis. Cave also serves as executive producer for the show, produced by Clerkenwell Films in association with Sky Studios.
Cave is, of course, the celebrated frontman of The Bad Seeds, and several seminal outfits including The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party, Grinderman and more.
In the United Kingdom., his adopted homeland, the band has landed seven top 10 albums, including Wild God, which opened and peaked at No. 5.
Wild God, released through Cave’s own label Bad Seed, via a new, exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Play It Again Sam, an imprint of the independent [PIAS] label group, was nominated for a raft of awards, including two Grammy categories (best alternative music album and best alternative music performance), best alternative rock record at the Libera Awards and the 2024 Australian Music Prize.
Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007, and has won eight ARIA Awards for his solo or group work.
The Death of Bunny Munro will air on Sky Atlantic and streaming services Now and Binge from Nov. 20.
