Wrecked: BBC orders horror comedy series about murders on a cruise ship

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Fremantle's Euston Films is set to produce a six-part horror comedy series called Wrecked for BBC Three and BBC iPlayer. Euston's Noemi Spanos and BBC's Tommy Bulfin will be executive producing the series, which has been written by Ryan J. Brown – who has intriguingly compared his story to Scream, The Shining, and The Cabin in the Woods.

Wrecked will be set 

aboard a mega cruise ship. It follows 19-year-old new recruit Jamie as he joins the crew in search of his missing sister. She was working aboard the same vessel on a previous tour and never made it home. Jamie is initiated into cruise life and gets a crash course on the teen tribes within the staff who party hard and remain oblivious to the bloodthirsty murders taking place on board. Jamie is forced to turn detective and uncover the sinister truth.

Here's what Brown had to say about the project:

In Wrecked, the kills are brutal, the laughs are loud, and the heartfelt moments land with real candor. I wanted to create a piece of genre entertainment that had the savvy teen sharpness of Scream, the unsettling atmosphere of The Shining and the strange upstairs, downstairs mythology of Cabin in the Woods. At its core, Wrecked is a tense coming-of-age story about a lost, gay kid from Sheffield propelled into uncharted waters of escalating paranoia and self-discovery."

Spanos added that Brown has a "wildly distinctive voice": 

His blend of comedy, horror and coming of age storytelling has had us laughing, crying and terrified in equal measures throughout the development process and we can’t wait to realize Ryan’s unique vision and tone on screen."

Wrecked will begin filming in Northern Ireland later this year.