Normal People
Sally Rooney's hit novel Normal People is getting a TV adaptation.
The BBC and Hulu announced the project in May this year and now we have the first photos from set.
Playing Marianne is Daisy Edgar-Jones.
She's a 21-year-old actor who was born and raised in London.
She has previously appeared in Cold Feet and War of the Worlds. 
Newcomer Paul Mescal will portray Connell in his first TV role.
Mescal's previous experience is theater based.
He's appeared in a number of plays in The Lir, The Gate Theatre and The Abbey.
Element Pictures, the production company behind Room, The Favourite and Dublin Murders, are working behind the scenes, while the Oscar nominated Lenny Abrahamson directs.
Sally Rooney is serving as an executive producer with Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe brought on to write the script.
Filming seems to have taken place in all locations depicted in the book - Dublin, Sligo and Italy.
Plot
If you haven't read the novel yet, do!
Normal People follows the complex lives of Marianne and Connell.
The story begins as both teenagers attend the same secondary school in Sligo.
Connell is handsome, successful and popular while Marianne is a total outcast.
This flips when both are accepted into Trinity College and start new lives in Dublin.
The book follows the pair as the grow close and grow distant, but continue to be pulled back into each other's lives through a number of traumas.
12 episodes of Normal People will premiere on BBC Three in 2020.
The show will later air on BBC One and Hulu.
Photos via BBC.
