There is no appetite for any COVID-related projects at the moment - instead we’re witnessing the Disney-fication of all filmed pop culture, with no room for the greatest global horror of our time. | Cole Haddon
It is 2070, and my future grandchildren have just been told by my son that he grew up during a global pandemic that killed millions of people., actually. In this vision of my family’s future, my grandchildren, who worship the moving image as much as their long-dead grandpa once did, have never seen any reference to this lethal pandemic in any of the classic early-21st century films and archaic 2D television series still popular on the holo-net.
I’m a novelist and screenwriter who works in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe, and Australia where I now reside. Desperate to come to terms with the pandemic and the deaths of family and friends, I’ve developed a thriller TV series on the subject. Unfortunately, agents in all three countries inform me there is no appetite in their markets for any COVID-related projects. Producers soon concur; networks and streamers – and audiences, by implication – are only looking for “escapism”.
and other US medical procedurals tackled COVID head-on, in part because, I’ve been told, many worried it would be disrespectful to the medical profession if the pandemic wasn’t depicted honestly. In the UK, Jack Thorne’smet with universal acclaim. COVID has appeared elsewhere on film and television, sure, but most typically as either a plot gimmick , what amount to episodes of the week on the subject before getting back to COVID-less narratives , or blip acknowledgements to quickly move past .
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