However, 2023’s version does include some magic realism and edginess. Kit Rakusen, who plays the knowledgable Dick, says: “No one is addicted to their phone and everyone just goes out, whereas now everyone’s addicted to their phones.” Elliott Rose (the dependable Julian) hopes the show will “inspire people, specifically younger audiences, to go outside and have an adventure”. The younger members of the cast think their generation will find the freedom and lack of technology appealing. But because we go back in time we can capture a sense of make-believe.” “Things go so fast nowadays, it’s hard to capture a moment. Going back to the second world war helped keep the show “relevant because there’s something in it that’s universal and larger than the trend of the moment or the technology that’s hip for a year”, says Winding Refn. Sneak peek … Kip the dog Flora Jacoby Richardson Elliott Rose Diaana Babnicova Kit Rakusen in The Famous Five: The Curse of Kirrin Island. But I also find it very frustrating – and certainly in the hands of children, because it’s also very dangerous.” Winding Refn explains: “When you have your own children you spend lots of time arguing about screen time … and how they’re affected by screens. This also meant the characters “can’t look things up on the internet or call people up on their mobile phones, which makes it more dramatic”. “I was always keen to set it around the period it was written,” says Read, who scripted the first episode. Winding Refn was influenced by everything from Indiana Jones – there is a stone temple and deadly mechanical traps – to Alfred Hitchcock and Greek tragedies. Then a few years ago, Read secured the rights.īlyton purists will be relieved that the new show is set in the 1940s and contains enchantment and adventure – as well as a bubblegum-coloured intro, synth soundtrack and a hallucination scene. The idea was prompted almost a decade ago when Read was visiting his friend in Los Angeles and one of Winding Refn’s daughters was reading The Famous Five. “That was the core of this: how do we turn The Famous Five not into just another exciting storyline but more of a fantastique? Something magical, something relevant on a larger philosophical level?” Everything is so complicated when you get older. He sounds almost wistful when he says: “We forget how beautiful it is to be a child when we get older, and how simple things can be so meaningful. One of the things that attracted the 53-year-old to The Famous Five was “the idea of never wanting to grow up”. Plus both he and long-time collaborator Matthew Read, whose credits include And Then There Were None and Peaky Blinders, are “in a place in our lives where we are wanting to make something our kids would watch”. Winding Refn has, after all, directed two episodes of Agatha Christie’s Marple for ITV, so has form in bringing classic female British authors to television.
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