Oscar-nominated filmmaker Uberto Pasolini, who produced The Full Monty and most just lately directed The Return, starring Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus, is taking up a TV collection adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s traditional journey novel Gulliver’s Travels. William Ivory (We Need Intercourse, The Nice Escaper) is writing the screenplay for the six-episode challenge on which Pasolini will function showrunner.
The high-end present, now in early phases, is being produced by Roberto Sessa (The Sea Past) and Jan Wünschmann (The Swarm, Concordia). It is going to be unveiled to potential broadcasters throughout the Sequence Mania competition in Lille.
Pasolini informed Number of the challenge:
“What Gulliver permits us to do right now is to make one thing actually, actually enjoyable. However on the identical time – very very like Swift did in his time – to speak in regards to the world round us; to speak about politics; to speak about greed; to speak in regards to the place of the Western man on the planet as a complete; to speak in regards to the relationship between man and nature.”
“All that stuff was there within the unique. And it kind of begs to be re-explored,” he added, noting that “Swift was having enjoyable together with his materials, together with his politics, together with his scatology, together with his obsession with the ship and intercourse and piss and motion and all that form of stuff.”
I bear in mind having to learn Gulliver’s Travels in highschool, and I discovered it actually tough to get via. However perhaps the topic materials could be extra attention-grabbing as an grownup. Are you a fan of the e-book or earlier diversifications?
