Liz Jensen’s bestselling 2009 novel “The Rapture” is to be adapted into a five-part drama starring Ruth Madeley, and produced by Mammoth Screen for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
The writer is Bryony Kimmings (“Last Christmas”), with Rebecca Manley, and is directed by Chanya Button.
Recovering from a car crash which has left her paralysed, forensic psychologist Gabrielle Fox (Madeley) takes a job working in a maximum security facility for juvenile patients. Here she meets 16-year-old inmate Bethany Krall, who was found guilty of brutally murdering her mother, and tells Gabs that she has psychic powers. Is she a highly manipulative psychopath or is she telling the truth when she says she can foretell a natural disaster linked to climate catastrophe?
Madeley said: “I loved Liz Jensen’s novel and Bryony Kimmings’ scripts are brilliantly inventive and funny and scary. Gabs is such a rich and complex character, and I cannot wait to play her.
The writer is Bryony Kimmings (“Last Christmas”), with Rebecca Manley, and is directed by Chanya Button.
Recovering from a car crash which has left her paralysed, forensic psychologist Gabrielle Fox (Madeley) takes a job working in a maximum security facility for juvenile patients. Here she meets 16-year-old inmate Bethany Krall, who was found guilty of brutally murdering her mother, and tells Gabs that she has psychic powers. Is she a highly manipulative psychopath or is she telling the truth when she says she can foretell a natural disaster linked to climate catastrophe?
Madeley said: “I loved Liz Jensen’s novel and Bryony Kimmings’ scripts are brilliantly inventive and funny and scary. Gabs is such a rich and complex character, and I cannot wait to play her.
- 4/20/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has tasked His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne to pen a TV adaptation of William Golding’s seminal novel Lord of the Flies.
This marks the first time the novel will be made for television, though there have been two feature film adaptations — the first Peter Brook’s 1963 movie and the second made in 1990 by Harry Hook (above).
Sex Education producer Eleven is attached to make The BBC’s series, which was unveiled by BBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore today at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in London. Several other announcements were also made (see below).
Writer Thorne is known for shows such as BBC fantasy series His Dark Materials, Channel 4 Covid-19 drama Help, Shane Meadows’ This is England and Netflix series The Eddy, feature films Wonder and Enola Holmes and theater productions including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Golding’s 1954 novel tells the story...
This marks the first time the novel will be made for television, though there have been two feature film adaptations — the first Peter Brook’s 1963 movie and the second made in 1990 by Harry Hook (above).
Sex Education producer Eleven is attached to make The BBC’s series, which was unveiled by BBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore today at a Broadcasting Press Guild event in London. Several other announcements were also made (see below).
Writer Thorne is known for shows such as BBC fantasy series His Dark Materials, Channel 4 Covid-19 drama Help, Shane Meadows’ This is England and Netflix series The Eddy, feature films Wonder and Enola Holmes and theater productions including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
Golding’s 1954 novel tells the story...
- 4/20/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
“‘The Commuter’ was a beauty to do,” beams composer Harry Gregson-Williams about his work on the standout episode of “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.” The veteran tunesmith handpicked the script because “it wasn’t too ridiculously supernatural,” and because its father-son storyline hit him close to home. He’s the father of two sons and three daughters, so “I know about those feelings.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Gregson-Williams above.
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“Electric Dreams” is an Amazon anthology series based on the writings of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. In “The Commuter,” a train station employee named Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall) is alarmed to discover that a number of riders are taking the train to a town that doesn’t exist. When he investigates for himself he discovers an alternate reality that forces him to confront...
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“Electric Dreams” is an Amazon anthology series based on the writings of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick. In “The Commuter,” a train station employee named Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall) is alarmed to discover that a number of riders are taking the train to a town that doesn’t exist. When he investigates for himself he discovers an alternate reality that forces him to confront...
- 6/19/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
“Black Mirror” has some heady competition from “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,” Amazon’s new anthology series devoted to the trippy author. And no episode is as emotionally gripping and visually arresting as “The Commuter.” Timothy Spall stars as a London railway worker, who escapes his boring job and melodramatic home life in an idyllic town in an alternate reality. Trouble is, that’s no solution and he’s induced into confronting painful reality.
Director Tom Harper (“War & Peace”) wanted to convey two very distinct worlds for contemporary London and the mythical Macon Heights, but not too pushed. “It’s about family with a thought-provoking script and quite a dark look, and the sci-fi element is pretty negligible,” said British cinematographer Ollie Downey (“Harlots”).
“Tom wanted the fancy world to be just a slightly improved version of where we are today, a world devoid of suffering and unhappiness.
Director Tom Harper (“War & Peace”) wanted to convey two very distinct worlds for contemporary London and the mythical Macon Heights, but not too pushed. “It’s about family with a thought-provoking script and quite a dark look, and the sci-fi element is pretty negligible,” said British cinematographer Ollie Downey (“Harlots”).
“Tom wanted the fancy world to be just a slightly improved version of where we are today, a world devoid of suffering and unhappiness.
- 5/23/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
★★★★☆ British social realism gets a welcome shot in the arm this week with the release of Cannes Director's Fortnight hit (and Lff select) The Selfish Giant (2013), the new feature from The Arbor (2010) director Clio Barnard. Known for her poignant installation work that blends documentary with a variety of other modes and forms, Barnard brought the Bradford of the late playwright Andrea Dunbar vividly to life with The Arbor, returning to the area once again for a more straightforward, though no less compelling portrayal of working-class life, with Oscar Wilde's short story of the same name providing the drama's basic framework.
Central to Barnard's latest is the friendship between hyperactive 13-year-old Arbor (a superb debut performance from Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (fellow newcomer Shaun Thomas). After one misdemeanour too many at the local secondary school the two boys beg and plead with Kitten (Shameless' Sean Gilder) -...
Central to Barnard's latest is the friendship between hyperactive 13-year-old Arbor (a superb debut performance from Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (fellow newcomer Shaun Thomas). After one misdemeanour too many at the local secondary school the two boys beg and plead with Kitten (Shameless' Sean Gilder) -...
- 10/23/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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