Hollywood star Emily Blunt is set to topline BBC and Amazon Prime Video's upcoming Western series "The English". The 38-year-old actor will co-star with Chaske Spencer, known for featuring in "Twilight" movies and "Banshee", in the six-episode show, BBC said in a press release.

"The Honourable Woman" creator Hugo Blick is writing and directing the show, which is currently filming in Spain. Set in the mid-American landscape of 1890, the high-octane epic western follows Cornelia Locke (Blunt), an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp (Spencer), an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive. Also starring in the series are actors Rounding out the cast is Rafe Spall, Tom Hughes, Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Toby Jones, Ciaran Hinds, Malcolm Storry, Steve Wall, Nichola McAuliffe, Sule Rimi and Cristian Solimeno.