The Institute showrunners Jack Bender and Ben Cavell say the new Stephen King adaptation is more timely than ever - because children are the ones leading the change.
"It was following the Parkland massacre shooting in the States, which seems to be an epidemic in our challenged country," Bender explains to GamesRadar+, when asked why now was the time to adapt King's 2019 novel into an eight-episode series. "I saw those kids who survived the tragedy come out of that as a group that was becoming political and defying and going to city council meetings and going around and saying, while they were seniors in high school, 'You adults don't know. You've got to do this. You've got to do that. We can fix it, but get out of our way and let us do it.'"
