FX’s murder mystery Retreat starring Emma Corrin has a new official title. The limited series has been renamed A Murder at the End of the World and has released the first two photos.
The official photos feature Emma Corrin (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy nominee, The Crown) and Harris Dickinson (Trust, Triangle of Sadness). The cast also includes Clive Owen, Brit Marling, Alice Braga, Joan Chen, Raúl Esparza, Jermaine Fowler, and Ryan J. Haddad. Pegah Ferydoni, Javed Khan, Louis Cancelmi, Edoardo Ballerini, Britian Seibert, Christopher Gurr, Kellan Tetlow, Daniel Olson, and Neal Huff also star.
The seven-episode series was created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, with the frequent collaborators directing and executive producing. Andrea Sperling, Melanie Marnich, and Nicki Paluga also serve as executive producers.
Marling and Batmanglij co-wrote 2011’s Sound of My Voice, with Batmanglij directing and Marling starring. The duo handled the same duties on 2013’s The East. And Marling and Batmanglij also created The OA which ran for two seasons on Netflix. Marling played the lead character, Prairie Johnson / The OA.
“Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij have delivered a suspenseful story that updates the classic mystery genre with a bold new character for our times,” said Gina Balian, President, Original Programming when the series was announced in late 2021. “We are thrilled that Brit and Zal and the rest of the creative team will bring this series to life with their unique points of view and care.”
A Murder at the End of the World will premiere on Hulu in August 2023.
FX released this description of the limited series:
“A Murder at the End of the World is a mystery series with a new kind of detective at the helm — a Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker named Darby Hart (Corrin). Darby and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire (Owen) to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life.”
