Amazon’s upcoming series “Utopia” may hit a little close to home with its pandemic storyline, but the show’s cast promises it won’t remind you too much of the current state of the world.
“When we started it the pandemic wasn’t happening,” star John Cusack said during a Television Critics Association panel on Thursday. “But the themes of these people who were obsessed with utopia, who know within utopia lies a secret to a dystopic or apocalyptic future that included viruses, it included famine, perhaps nuclear accidents — so the theme itself covered a lot of that, but it was kind of disturbing and surreal to see it come so close to life with the pandemic.”
Adapted from the original British series by “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn, “Utopia” centers on a group of comic fans who meet online and bond over their obsession of a seemingly fictional comic called,...
“When we started it the pandemic wasn’t happening,” star John Cusack said during a Television Critics Association panel on Thursday. “But the themes of these people who were obsessed with utopia, who know within utopia lies a secret to a dystopic or apocalyptic future that included viruses, it included famine, perhaps nuclear accidents — so the theme itself covered a lot of that, but it was kind of disturbing and surreal to see it come so close to life with the pandemic.”
Adapted from the original British series by “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn, “Utopia” centers on a group of comic fans who meet online and bond over their obsession of a seemingly fictional comic called,...
- 8/6/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
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