EXCLUSIVE: Jack Thorne has penned more projects than the internet can handle but Netflix‘s first ever one-shot TV series Adolescence generated a fresh challenge for him.
“Jack had never written anything like this,” said director Philip Barantini of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Help and This is England 88 scribe. “He’s done amazing theater but with this there is no curtain call. The camera is always following someone.”
Adolescence, which reunites one-shot connoisseur Barantini with his Boiling Point star Stephen Graham, tells the story of a 13-year-old who is suddenly taken into custody one early morning for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Audiences are thrust into the action immediately via Barantini’s one-shot…