Exec joins Liza Marshall and Kris Thykier’s growing company.
Archery Pictures, the TV and film outfit launched by Liza Marshall and Kris Thykier in October last year, has hired Alex Marshall as chief operating officer.
Marshall has been COO of Warp Films since 2008 and has eecutive produced many of their productions including Four Lions and TV spin-offs from This Is England.
Most recently he has been a producer on The Last Panthers, a six-part series for Sky Atlantic and Canal+, written by Jack Thorne.
Marshall has more than 15 years experience in film and television, specialising in multi-party project finance.
In a joint statement, Thykier and Marshall said “Alex is arriving at a key moment for us as we develop projects with some of the UK’s best talent - including Bill Nicholson, Peter Kosminsky, Neil Jordan, Adrian Hodges and Howard Overman. Alex’s deal making experience will be vital in pushing these projects forward.”
Marshall said: “I am delighted to be joining Kris and Liza at Archery. They are rapidly building an ambitious slate of international television and film and I am really excited to be working with them to bring these projects to the screen’
Other key executives at the company include Mairi Bett, head of physical production (The Worlds End, Green Zone, Jane Eyre) and production executive Pip Williams (Ali and Nino, Trash).
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