Usually in my writing I cut away before any violence really happens and then come to the aftermath. As dark as my stuff is it's not very violent. To me in this show, in particular, violence is its own character. For the most part, violence is its own character. People talk about using a city as its own character or a place setting as its own character. Every once in a while, violence is used to punctuate a moment of humor, and in certain episodes. Gillian Flynn: It was about what is necessary for each scene. Was there a challenge as far as how much gore you want it to show? That would be the only real tie to any sort of graphic novel or comic artistic-ness. You can see those different panels to see those different pages. So to get to work with him, and describe things we're going to see visually and, and to me, that was enough that you could page through this. I had discovered him doing Bill Willingham fables years ago, and had always been obsessed with him. To that end, I did hire a Brazilian artist I loved named João Ruas. I wanted Utopia, the graphic novel, to be a real existing thing that you feel like you could page through. I didn't want any Iris out shots or any paneled shots. I wanted it to feel rooted in those and feel grainy and filmic and textured and layered. In fact, I was pitching this as ‘Marathon Man meets The Goonies' and and visually it should feel like that. I decided very quickly, that whereas the UK is very color saturated and beautiful and sleek, I was going to take my visual cues much more from the conspiracy thrillers of the post Watergate 70s stuff like ‘All the President's Men' and ‘The Parallax View' and those classics. That was one of the big decisions I was going to make visually for sure. There's certain things I took from the UK that I really love, like the Wilson eye socket scene and there are certain things that I didn't but for me, it was always about how we feel as humans about the violence and how casually or non not casually we take it.Ĭould you talk about the comic realism and trying to bring that element to it without making it seem corny? You have your anti heroine who kills at will, and thinks that humans are fungible, and slowly learns that each person is a person that is on display, and other characters become more aggressive, and more willing to put their themselves on the line and attack or fight back or be aggressive.
It’s how we view each other as humans, and certainly as you're looking at each character, how they deploy or don't deploy violence is really important and a real signifier here. Gillian Flynn: Violence is a really useful tool as a storytelling tool. What led you to adapt this British series?Ĭan you talk about the violence overall is so essential to what you think is the tone of this series?
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Michael Stearns, Farrah Mackenzie as Alice, Christopher Denham as Arby, and Cory Michael Smith as Thomas Christie.ī recently spoke with Flynn about spearheading this series and injecting her own style that’s a bit different from the British series. The high-stakes adventure brings the group face-to-face with the comic’s famed central character, Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane), who joins them on their mission to save the world while harboring secrets of her own. They realize these are not just the makings of a conspiracy they are very real dangers coming alive right now in their world. Inspired by the British series of the same name, the new Amazon Original series, Utopia centers on a group of comic fans who meet online and bond over their obsession of a seemingly fictional comic called, “Utopia.” Together, Becky (Ashleigh LaThrop), Ian (Dan Byrd), Samantha (Jessica Rothe), Wilson Wilson (Desmin Borges) and Grant (Javon “Wanna” Walton) unearth hidden meanings cloaked within the pages of “Utopia,” predicting threats to humanity. the series stars John Cusack ( High Fidelity), Rainn Wilson ( The Office), Sasha Lane ( American Honey), Ashleigh LaThrop ( Fifty Shades Freed), Dan Byrd ( Cougar Town), Desmin Borges ( You’re The Worst), and Cory Michael Smith ( Gotham)
Currently playing on Amazon Prime is the ultra drama series Utopia, a twisted, eight-episode thriller about a group of young comic fans who discover that the conspiracy in a graphic novel is real, and embark on a high-stakes adventure to save humanity from the end of the world.įrom best-selling author and award-winning screenwriter, Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects), who serves as showrunner and executive producer.
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