Feature marks indie’s debut for SVoD giant
A feature documentary on the notorious London nail-bomber is Expectation’s debut Netflix commission.
According to Deadline, Tim Hincks/Peter Fincham’s outfit is behind The Nailbomber, which will tell the story of far-right extremist David Copeland’s detonation of three bombs in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho in the late 1990s.
Over three successive weekends, the homemade bombs, each of which contained up to 1,500 four-inch nails, killed three people and injured 40.
Neo-Nazi Copeland targeted London’s Black, Bengali and LGBTQ+ communities. He was convicted of murder in 2000 and given six concurrent life sentences.
Expectation factual creative director Colin Barr is exec-producing, with The Detectives: Murder on the Streets’ Dan Vernon on board to direct.
Airing next year, the doc follows in the footsteps of other Netflix UK true-crime orders, including Pulse Films’ The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Under Barr, Expectation has been responsible for BBC2 series Murder 24/7 and BBC3’s Why Dad Killed Mum: My Family’s Secret.
Expectation has had a productive lockdown, having secured second seasons of Channel 4’s The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan and BBC2/BBC Scotland drama Guilt, which it co-produces with Happy Tramp North.
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