Here’s the first look at Matt Smith in new Nick Cave TV series ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’

The first image of Matt Smith in the upcoming adaptation of Nick Cave’s 2009 novel  The Death of Bunny Munro has been released.

The six-part Sky series tells the story of the eponymous father and his son as they head out on a road trip while both dealing with grief.

In the first image (above) Smith is seen in a laundrette smoking a cigarette alongside his co-star Rafael Matheì, who plays Bunny Junior.

The full synopsis reads: “Following his wife Libby’s death by suicide, sex addicted, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario Bunny Munro finds himself saddled with a young son and only a loose concept of parenting.

“Together with nine-year-old Bunny Junior he embarks on an epic and increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to contain their grief in very different ways.

“As Bunny bounces from one sales pitch to the next, trying to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior kills time talking to the ghost of his mother and distracting himself from the dawning realisation that his dad isn’t just fallible—he’s a complete mess.

“As he starts to unravel, Bunny realises he must do something to rescue his son from his own outdated notions of what it is to be a man. The Death of Bunny Munro is both a wild cautionary tale and a tender portrait of a father and son.”

The series is due to arrive next year and has been directed by Industry’s Isabella Eklöf and written by Pete Jackson – who previously worked on Channel 4’s 2022 drama Somewhere Boy.

Cave’s most recent album with the Bad Seeds came in Wild God, which arrived in August.