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PLUNDER (WT)

PLUNDER (WT)

Art

TV series

Stand

2022-08-25 00:00:00 UTC

Statusdetails

in development

Status

development

Produktionsfirma

Three Tables Productions (ZDF Studios)

Link für Produktionsfirma

https://www.threetables.productions/

Produzent

JT Wong, David Chikwe, Himesh Kar (producers)

Anschrift

2 Esmond Road, London, United Kingdom, W4 1JF

Regie

Chris Cornwell

Pitch

The series follows an art forger who’s forced into teaming up with a professional thief to steal back priceless Asian artworks that were taken during Britain’s colonial past. The story is inspired by several audacious true-life raids of Chinese art from museums and collections in Europe over the last decade. A Theft of Lies starts with James Tobin, a British art dealer of East Asian heritage. Tobin is known for his knack of finding lost works from renowned artists and selling them to the wealthy elite who visit his Kensington art gallery. On the surface, he’s exactly what you’d expect from an operator in this world: charming, an avatar of high class, and devilishly clever. There’s only one problem. Everything that Tobin sells – his paintings, his persona – is fake. Everyone buys his fraud... until Xiaoli “Lily” Jiang walks into his gallery. Confident, astute and impeccably dressed, she can see straight through his façade and makes him an offer he cannot afford to refuse. Lily is the mastermind behind a series of breath-taking thefts, but she needs Tobin, his skills and high-class connections, to pull off her latest plans. She intends to steal from the elites she hates, and get rich whilst doing it. The two will soon clash with Nathan Everett, the sole member of Scotland Yard’s under-resourced art crimes squad: a man who’s hot on their heels. As the stakes get higher, Lily and Tobin will find a love with each other, even as their loyalties to the mission and one another are tested to their limits