The brand new Sky Atlantic/HBO drama about the Chernobyl disaster looks set to be a disturbing affair.
A brand new extended trailer for Chernobyl has just dropped, capturing the fear and horror of the catastrophic real-life nuclear disaster.
In it, we see all manner of gruesome images showing the horrific effects of nuclear radiation as the scale of the 1986 accident at the Ukrainian plant becomes apparent.
"Every atom of uranium is like a bullet, penetrating everything in its path…," Jared Harris' Kremlin scientist Valery Legasov declares. "Chernobyl holds three trillion of these bullets. Some of them will not stop firing for 50,000 years."
The series is set to chronicle the events of the nuclear tragedy as well as the people caught up in it, with Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Jessie Buckley also forming part of an impressive cast.
Skarsgård plays the role of Boris Shcherbina, a government official who oversaw the Kremlin's commission on Chernobyl, while Watson is Ulana Khomyuk, a nuclear physicist who was committed to solving the mystery of what led to the Chernobyl disaster.
"Nobody would see it as a privilege to spend five months in a dilapidated nuclear plant, unless it was to play in a script like this..." Skarsgård said last year.
"This is a significant piece of work and I'm honoured to be part of it. I can't wait to get started with this amazing group of people, and am especially excited to be working with Stellan again," Watson added.
Chernobyl is written by Craig Mazin (The Huntsman: Winter’s War) and directed by Johan Renck (Breaking Bad).
Chernobyl will premiere on Tuesday, May 7 on Sky Atlantic and will stream on NOW TV.
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