BBC/HBO/VRT television adaptation of Parade’s End
A couple of days before the Society’s 2012 Parade’s End conference I managed to talk to Damien Timmer, MD of Mammoth Screen, who set up the company with Piers Wenger. I was able to learn some fascinating details during that phone conversation, including the fact that Damien had read Parade’s End as a recent graduate in History, and loved the book. Interested as he was even then in adaptation, he saw its potential.
In November I went to meet Damien at the company’s London office, where he gave me more information about the gestation of the project. He and Piers Wenger had stayed in touch after Wenger went to BBC Wales, and were continually on the look-out for something different to adapt, something ‘with a little extra’, something like Parade’s End. When a writer with the calibre of Tom Stoppard - who knew and liked The Good Soldier - became interested in the idea, then he knew this might be the time for Ford’s tetralogy. The rest is now history, and Parade’s End aired to great acclaim, as we all know, from August-Sept 2012 on BBC2.
Very exciting recent news for the Society is that we hope to archive some of Mammoth Screen’s production materials, so watch this space.
Sara Haslam
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A couple of days before the Society’s 2012 Parade’s End conference I managed to talk to Damien Timmer, MD of Mammoth Screen, who set up the company with Piers Wenger. I was able to learn some fascinating details during that phone conversation, including the fact that Damien had read Parade’s End as a recent graduate in History, and loved the book. Interested as he was even then in adaptation, he saw its potential.
In November I went to meet Damien at the company’s London office, where he gave me more information about the gestation of the project. He and Piers Wenger had stayed in touch after Wenger went to BBC Wales, and were continually on the look-out for something different to adapt, something ‘with a little extra’, something like Parade’s End. When a writer with the calibre of Tom Stoppard - who knew and liked The Good Soldier - became interested in the idea, then he knew this might be the time for Ford’s tetralogy. The rest is now history, and Parade’s End aired to great acclaim, as we all know, from August-Sept 2012 on BBC2.
Very exciting recent news for the Society is that we hope to archive some of Mammoth Screen’s production materials, so watch this space.
Sara Haslam
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