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Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Filming has begun in Europe on BBC America's eight-part adaptation of Luke Jennings' Villanelle novellas. Written by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the series Killing Eve stars Sandra Oh as a desk-bound security services operative obsessed with bringing in Jodie Comer's globe-trotting assassin. The show is being shot on locations in Paris, Tuscany, Berlin and London and is scheduled to premiere in 2018.
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"I'm hugely excited to have started filming Killing Eve. It's looking fantastic and our cast, led by the indomitable Sandra and Jodie, are to die for!" Waller-Bridge said in a statement.
"Bringing Phoebe's remarkable writing to life with this genius cast and crew is enthralling. Killing Eve promises to be an original -- blackly funny and joltingly affecting, glamorous and startlingly realistic, a vivid and colorful noir thriller," added Sarah Barnett, BBC America's president.
The cast will also include Fiona Shaw, David Haig, Kim Bodnia. Darren Boyd, Sean Delaney, Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Owen McDonnell.
Oh is best known for her work on Grey's Anatomy, while Comer is famous for her performance in The White Princess.
