Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is to adapt Ben Macintyre’s book Sas: Rogue Heroes as a TV drama after Kudos optioned the novel.
Knight is writing the script for the adaptation with the Endemol Shine UK company. The story tells how the world’s most renowned and ruthless special forces unit, the Sas, came to exist. He has scored access to secret archives to tell the definitive account of Sas history.
There is currently no broadcaster attached.
The drama will bring to life the revolutionary thinking which led to the creation of a new form of combat and warfare. Celebrating the glory, action and camaraderie at the heart of this story, the series will delve into the psychology of the flawed, reckless but brave group of maverick officers and men who formed the Sas in the darkest days of WW2.
Knight said, “This will be a secret history telling...
Knight is writing the script for the adaptation with the Endemol Shine UK company. The story tells how the world’s most renowned and ruthless special forces unit, the Sas, came to exist. He has scored access to secret archives to tell the definitive account of Sas history.
There is currently no broadcaster attached.
The drama will bring to life the revolutionary thinking which led to the creation of a new form of combat and warfare. Celebrating the glory, action and camaraderie at the heart of this story, the series will delve into the psychology of the flawed, reckless but brave group of maverick officers and men who formed the Sas in the darkest days of WW2.
Knight said, “This will be a secret history telling...
- 5/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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