The heavy-lifting had already been done by Kate - the characters, the story, the tone - so my job was to smash up the novel and re-imagine it as a screenplay. I plumped for Edinburgh, not because Kate lived there, but because it has such a wonderful Gothic presence that I felt would fit perfectly with Kate's form of skewed realism. So Kate and I strolled around Edinburgh in the rain, talking about her characters, where they might live and eat and drink.Ĭase Histories is actually set in Cambridge but, as we were adapting three of the books and they're each set in a different place, it was clearly going to be necessary for us to decide on one city and try to make it a character in its own right. Nobody was as crass to mention it, of course, but this was sort of an audition for me.Īs I knocked on Kate's front door and marshalled my thoughts I realised this is how actors must feel a lot of the time. I've adapted Tom Brown's Schooldays and Under The Greenwood Tree in the past, but those novelists were safely dead and not waiting for me in their house in Edinburgh. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructionsĮvery other person I mentioned the book to adored it, especially women, and had very strong feelings about who should play Jackson Brodie and what the series should look like. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed.
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