London- Kudos Executive Producer Derek Wax will be setting up his own independent drama production company within Endemol Shine Group, Wild Mercury Productions. The company will be run independently by Wax while still benefiting from Kudos’ production infrastructure. The first project from Wild Mercury Productions will be Troy: Fall of a City for BBC1, David Farr’s visceral retelling of the Trojan War, to be produced in association with Kudos.

Wild Mercury Productions has a number of other projects currently in development, including the recently announced Cicero project, an adaptation of Robert Harris’ trilogy of political thrillers set in Ancient Rome – a co-production with Kudos – as well as a slate of contemporary dramas.  Wax will continue in his Executive Producer role on Kudos’ Humans II which is currently in production in and around London.