Gillian Flynn Talks About the Comics, Conspiracies and Pandemics in her new TV Series, 'Utopia'

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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You know Gillian Flynn as the genre-redefining writer behind Gone Girl, both the 2012 novel and the 2014 movie adaptation starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck. Since the success of Gone Girl, Flynn has written only for the screen, including the 2018 movie Widows and the HBO series Sharp Objects. Out now on Amazon Prime, Utopia is Flynn’s latest work, based on a 2013 BBC show of the same name.

Greta talks with Flynn about Utopia, Gone Girl and what’s next.

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0:22.4	guest today is one of those
0:23.7	authors whose name should just become its own adjective you know Kafka-esque, Pinchin-esque
0:30.1	Flynn-esque you know Gillian- Flynn as the genre redefining writer behind
0:37.6	Gone Girl, both the 2012 novel and the 2014 movie adaptation.
0:43.0	Since Gone Girl, she has only written for the screen.
0:46.0	She adapted her book Sharp Objects for HBO
0:49.0	and she also wrote this great Lady Hiced movie in 2018 called Widows.
0:54.2	She just wrote a new TV series, it's called Utopia,
0:57.3	and it's based on a British show that came out back in 2013.
1:00.8	The new version is now out on Amazon Prime. So Utopia opens with a couple who's just inherited a house from a hoarder and they're going through a bunch of stuff and they find some drawings from like a comic book.
1:15.4	Let's take a listen.
1:16.5	What the hell is this?
1:18.5	Don't look just dumb.
1:21.2	Utopia. It's like a comic book or something.
1:27.0	Crap. Those are grandpa into.
1:31.0	Ugh. Just throw it out.
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