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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Savage Media editor

‘The time is right for it’: Adolescence producers to reboot nuclear war drama Threads

Black-and-white image of Mick Jackson and Barry Hines.
Threads collaborators Mick Jackson and Barry Hines on the film set in 1984. Photograph: Mike Forster/ANL/Shutterstock

With several wars raging, powerful countries squaring up and the world seemingly tilting towards authoritarianism, it would seem a challenging time to expose television audiences to a notoriously bleak story of a British city experiencing the fallout from nuclear war.

Yet a UK team of producers behind the global Netflix hit Adolescence believe it is precisely the right time to recreate Threads, a British film from the 1980s that had audiences weeping and horrified at its pitiless storyline.

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