Mark Wahlberg’s Dark Age, Baby Reindeer’s Renaissance
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Richard Gadd's statement, Ridley Scott's circus, Peter Dinklage goes west, Harmony Korine's baby face and your eyes.
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BABY REINDEER'S RENAISSANCE
Baby Reindeer’s writer/creator/star Richard Gadd excels at ripping out his heart.
He laid bare his personal trauma in the Netflix series, which resonated so deeply with audiences that it has climbed to the streamer’s #10 most popular show of all time.
Now, his latest project, Lions, is being co-produced by HBO and BBC.
Here’s the official synopsis:
Ruben turns up at his estranged brother Niall's wedding, acting as a catalyst for a revival of the last 40 years of their relationship.
The series is said to cover the highs and lows of the brothers’ relationship, from them meeting as teenagers to their falling out as adults. Answering the question: What does it mean to be a man?
While there’s a vagueness about the concept, Gadd will be in familiar territory exploring how bad blood in the past stains the present.
Gadd's process is painfully personal, as he detailed in his director’s statement for the gut-wrenching 4th episode of Baby Reindeer, where he is [spoiler] by a successful member of the industry:
“There were drafts of Episode Four where I found myself holding back… or doing just about anything to avoid the latent “shame."
He continued:
“So, every time I redrafted Episode Four, I pushed myself to go deeper each time; to work through my shame towards a place which felt more emotionally real. To make sure it correctly honoured my experience and those who might have been through similar. Writing into such an uncomfortable place can be difficult but I knew in challenging myself to show the parts I was most ashamed of, that the episode would take on the kind of emotional resonance that Baby Reindeer is now celebrated for.”
If Gadd can harness that rawness for Lion, it will etch his name into the annals of TV history.
Production is set to start soon.
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