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Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen are teaming up for a new series!

The two Emmy winners will be starring in the upcoming BBC and Starz adaptation of author David Nicholls‘ bestselling novel You Are Here.

In the series, Matthew, 51, and Claire, 42, will be playing Michael and Marnie, respectively.

Here’s the synopsis, per Deadline:

“When a mutual friend throws them together, Marnie and Michael unexpectedly find themselves setting off on an epic walk. Against the odds, they end up on the brink of a relationship that neither was looking for, but which might be exactly the one they both need.”

Set along the coast-to-coast walking trail from the Lake District to Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire in England, the series will be filmed in the Lake District around Manchester.

Nicholls penned the eight-episode series adaptation. Lenny Abrahamson, who directed Normal People, will be directing the new project, which will be produced through Element Pictures.

“I’m so delighted to be working on You Are Here with Element, the BBC, Starz and Lenny, whose work I’ve admired for many years,” Nicholls shared in a statement.

“Matthew and Claire are both just dream casting, wonderful in comedy and drama, so detailed and thoughtful and sympathetic,” he added. “The intention with the novel was to write a close-up study of a relationship, but set against this magnificent landscape, and that’s our ambition here too; to make something both intimate and epic, funny and dramatic, a romantic comedy with real emotion. We can’t wait to bring Marnie and Michael’s journey to the screen.”

Claire will next be starring alongside Andrew Garfield in The Magic Faraway Tree, which hits theaters on August 21. Watch the trailer here!

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