British actors Nicholas Hoult and Daisy Edgar-Jones have been roped in to play the lead roles in the upcoming comedy series of Disney+ “Mosquito”.
The show is produced by 20th Television, Piggy Ate Roast Beef Productions and Hustle & Punch.
“Mosquito” comes from Tony McNamara, the writer of “The Favourite” and series “The Great”, both starring Hoult. McNamara also serves as the executive producer of the series along with Hoult, Edgar-Jones, Marian Macgowan, Tracy Underwood and Daniel Pipski.
According to reports, “Mosquito” is described as a “sardonic look at a young couple’s relationship”.
Nicholas and Daisy will play Kate and Ed, a “recently married couple whose secrets begin to reveal as daily life chips away at the personas they present… all started by an intrusive mosquito”, as per the official synopsis.
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“I’m thrilled and excited to work with and team up two of the best actors around. I can’t wait to go make absurd comedy with them,” McNamara said in a statement.
The show, which will stream on Hulu and Disney+ internationally, will start production in 2026.
On work front, Hoult was most recently seen as the iconic villain Lex Luthor in “Superman”. He will next star in “How to Rob a Bank”, a heist film directed by David Leitch.
Edgar-Jones, who broke out with the 2020 show “Normal People” and then starred in films like “Fresh” and “Twisters”, is currently working on the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s famous novel “Sense and Sensibility”.