BBC Writersroom interviews: Dennis Kelly
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- BBC Writersroom interviewed writer Dennis Kelly (Pulling, Matilda the Musical, Utopia) at the 2013 TV Drama Writers' Festival.
Dennis shares his advice for emerging writers and why they shouldn't compromise.
He describes how he develops characters, and why the character's voice is the key.
Dennis also talks about writing series 2 of Utopia and reveals his Desert Island DVDs.
Utopia was an absolute masterpiece that ended too soon, and hasn’t been matched by anything since.
Mr.Dennis Kelly you are a genius! Please try and finish the Utopia project! (3 and 4) of course :)
I love what Dennis says at 2:00, fundamentally we don't really know what people are capable of until we push the right (or wrong) sequence of butttons and I think the same applies with characters. Some of their motivation is circumstantial and some is inherent.
This guy is who made me want to write.
Perfectly OK to evolve as you progress. Life is change. And you will become a better writer as you go. But don't compromise on your voice.
2:25 I wonder who that character was? That would have been really interesting to find out!
Also (on Utopia as well) apparently there are plenty of people who would pay for Utopia episodes. I would! Maybe approach Amazon or Netflix or even bloody HBO as anyway they wanted a version of Utopia.
+Samaila Ionut Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to happen. Each episode in Series Two cost nearly £1 million per episode, and the US version didn't go ahead because of financial issues. Shame...Channel 4 could afford it, as they make a shedload of money from reality TV shows. Channel 4 wanted the show to go out at 9.30 to get peak advertising revenue from it, but they wanted to cull some of the violence, and Kelly wasn't prespared to do that.
Thanks mate...one can only hope :) anyway, I would've not cut any of the violence part anyway. Thinking paranoid and conspirational wise...why would they want a TV show like this one ;)
+Samaila Ionut True! Too many home truths revealed?
Lol. Home truths that is mate:)))
+Samaila Ionut all joking aside its not the first time HBO have bought the rights to programs of this nature and shelved them. The truth about nightmares I believe it was called talked about the rise of Isis since the sixties. It was BBC and has never been aired since, it was brilliant. It on CZcams though.
I'll miss Utopia :-(
Utopia won and International Emmy but that means nothing to channel 4 apparently
+Kyle Demoderpifnlikskin Exactly!
I've heard nothing from Kelly after Utopia got cancelled.
+Onmysheet He's working on the screenplay for the Matilda the Musical movie and a new play.
+Andrew Elias I thought he was working on the world war z sequel
Oh yeah, that too! He's a busy chap.