WHEN WAS UTOPIA FILMED FULL
WHEN WAS UTOPIA FILMED SERIES

“With Dennis’s blessing it was interesting figuring out with these characters, where they came from and the answer was, to me, they actually come from a different place,” Flynn said. While key characters Ian, Becky, Wilson, Grant, Arby and Jessica Hyde are all present and correct in the US version and fill similar roles in the plot, the way the characters are presented is subtly different.

Sasha Lane plays Jessica Hyde in Amazon's Utopia Amazon Prime Video I'm not sure if I'd use the word bleak, but you certainly do want large numbers of people to watch, and it's important that large numbers of people do watch.” The existing characters “Whereas it's so commodified in the United States. Television becomes this experimental artform, really. So you can afford to be more experimental. “You know when you have Government-subsidised television, and you're doing six episodes at a time, and you only make 13 episodes total, you don't need numbers to make revenue. So if you make too bleak a show, you're not going to reach a hundred episodes,” he explained.

“The American business model for television is to reach 100 episodes so you get get syndication, and that's where the real money is made. Rainn Wilson, meanwhile, suggested that the show could be less “bleak” for a US audience. that's less of the aesthetic than the English version had, more sort of grounded and tied into a more real life frequency.”

WHEN WAS UTOPIA FILMED FULL

No-one wants to watch some tired rehash of a far superior British show.” The tone and styleĪmazon Prime's Utopia full cast Amazon Prime Video That's part of why I knew I would take this job, because I'm sure it's just gonna be one season and done. “I really don't like it when Americans remake British series,” quipped The Office star Rainn Wilson, who plays Dr Michael Stearns in Utopia.

“I think the comparison of the English Office to the American Office is probably a fair comparison of what we're trying to transpose – this English Utopia into the American Utopia.”Īnd one of Byrd’s co-stars knows that process better than most… “And then she just sort of built it out as much as she could and I think in doing that it will hopefully become a more accessible version of the show, a more Americanised version if you will.

WHEN WAS UTOPIA FILMED SERIES

“It feels like what Gillian did was just take the original and you know, use it as a launching pad,” series star Dan Byrd said. And I felt like I wanted to see more of what this thing was that people were on such a mission to use.” “We all know more about them, and even if you don’t read them, you’re aware of them. “We get to see more of Utopia, the actual graphic novel, because you know, again, in those five-six years since Dennis’s version, I feel like graphic novels have become very mainstream,” Flynn explained. Jessica Rothe plays Samantha in Utopia on Amazon Prime Video Amazon Prime Video And chatting to Flynn and her cast on the Chicago set of the drama last year, we found out just how those differences are manifested.Ĭheck out the biggest changes below, but first why not check out this quick video recap of the original UK Utopia (above)? Even if you’ve seen it before, it’s probably high time to refresh your memory… The story In short, the 2020 Utopia is the same, but different.

“Which was very very chivalrous of him, and much more gracious than I would be if someone was f**king around in my world that I'd created.”Īs a matter of fact, the new Utopia does share a lot with the British version – the first two episodes follow it extremely closely, and almost all the characters fill similar roles and have the same names – but it also strikes out into pastures new, adding new characters and storylines while also making stylistic choices at odds with the original. “Because as Dennis himself would constantly tell me, if I was like 'did I go too far?' when I sent him a new script, he’d say 'no - why remake something if you're not going to remake it?'.

When was utopia filmed