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When he announced that Michael Winterbottom would be doing a series about the first pandemic blockade in the spring of 2022, many assumed, or perhaps hoped, that the politically committed director would hold the UK government accountable. However, speaking to Deadline at the 38th Sarajevo Film Festival, 25 years after the screening of his acclaimed war drama Welcome To Sarajevo, Winterbottom revealed that, like many of his fictional but factual films, the six-part Sky series This England, which will premiere on September 21, it will be an ensemble piece, taking a review of the UK authorities’ initial reaction to Covid.
“Boris is having a bit of a time,” he said, “because it’s a mosaic of many other stories. The most fun component was the research, Array because we started it right after the first wave, in June 2020. We were able to reach out to a lot of scientists, other people working at SAGE [The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies], a lot of doctors, nurses, nursing home staff, and other people, of course, who had Covid. It is therefore a collage of all his stories intertwined in. . . an almaximum newspaper. It’s a newspaper, or a column, or a first wave calfinishar, so it ends at the end of May 2020. “
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Although much news has emerged from the pandemic, adding the infamous ‘Partygate’ scandal involving illegal lockdown meetings at Johnson’s home at 10 Downing Street, Winterbottom insists the focus is on the big picture. “We’re just trying to chronicle what happened,” he said, “and my guess is, and I think it’s true, everyone was trying to do the best they could. No one was looking to make mistakes. The virus was spreading incredibly. fast: I mean, if you think about what was happening in early March 2020, 8 days later, it was a completely different scenario, so the concept of series speed is to check to keep this pace. As you watch the series, you don’t forget all those things you don’t forget to have lived. For a moment, it seemed to be anything that happened in China, the next moment it was in Italy, then it was with us in the UK, but not so bad, and then suddenly it was and that feeling of going out to catch up is what we hope to capture in the series.
Fremantle
Winterbottom explained that he was not the series, which was presented to him via Fremantle in June 2020. “It was as indistinct as, ‘Do you need to do something about Boris Johnson and Covid?'” he recalls. “So it took two years. The writing procedure was quite fast, and then we filmed more commonly last year. The meeting was quite slow. But the shooting was quite confusing because we were looking to get into nursing homes, into hospitals. -production, the third lockdown had just started, so we went back to lockdown.
Branagh, however, was Winterbottom’s final choice to star, and the actor came on board immediately after reading the first draft of the script, which he co-wrote with Kieron Quirke. “Ken said yes,” Winterbottom said. But he was only 8 weeks old, in March and April. So I thought, ‘Okay, that sounds pretty possible. ‘”
But why Branagh?
“Well, it’s a confusing choice,” he laughed. Who else would play Boris Johnson?And I hope Boris is flattered that we chose Kenneth Branagh to play him. Ken did a wonderful job. But, to be honest, it’s not a part of the character. Boris/Ken is just the central character of the story. With everyone, we are hunting their cadres in relation to this pandemic. You don’t see anyone’s story, you don’t see who they are, their families, you just see what they’re doing in relation to the pandemic. So, in A Way, it’s the pandemic narrative that drives the total series.
However, some events included on the screen are sure to shake up some skeletons, adding the questionable scale in government councillor Dominic Cummings to Barnard’s castle closure. “We stuck to what happened,” Winterbottom said. We show what happened, and we don’t comment on it. We just show how this story came to light, as well as show how scientists investigated the virus. It was an amazing task that they did, to get the genomes so fast, to get the vaccine so fast, and we’re going to show all that as well.
With This England just weeks away from broadcast, it’s no wonder the prolific director has another feature film on the opening blocks. “We’re in Italy about to start filming in Promised Land,” he said. I think we’ve wanted to do it for a decade: it’s a story set in Tel Aviv in the 1930s, when it was part of the British Mandate, and it’s a mystery about two British policemen, played by Douglas Burns and Harry. Melling, they are persecuting [Jewish activist] Abraham Stern, who seeks to blow them up.
Why has he been chasing him for so long?” I don’t even forget why, however, we started researching this story maybe 15 years ago,” Winterbottom said. “It’s a very small story: it’s about two British policemen, a Jewish woman with whom one of them is in love, and Stern. So, it’s a very contained story, but I think it shows how violence or extremism can separate other people, the way other people who can paint in combination in a general scenario are gradually separated through the use of violence.
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