Interview With "Dope Thief" Showrunner, Director, Writer & Executive Producer Peter Craig

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"Dope Thief" is a new American crime drama television miniseries created by Peter Craig, based on the 2009 novel by Dennis Tafoya. It premiered on Apple TV+ on March 14th, and has received positive reviews for its performances from Brian Tyree Henry & Wanger Moura, writing from Craig and gritty look at the drug trade along the Eastern seaboard. Craig was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work and experience making the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the show, which is now available to stream on Apple TV+. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Giovanni Lago's interview with the showrunner, writer, director, and executive producer for Dope Thief, Peter Craig.
0:10.7	I bet you I could throw my father than you.
0:12.7	So stupid.
0:14.9	One, two, three.
0:24.6	I'm going to explain to you what we do. D.A!
0:25.6	Hands out!
0:26.6	We're posing his feds.
0:29.6	We were ripping off drug dealers.
0:31.6	Forget you don't remember your face.
0:35.6	Just a badge. Here, the 215, you're gonna get your head shot off.
0:41.3	Hello everyone, this is the Next Best Series podcast, and today I am joined by the showrunner, writer, executive producer, director, Peter Craig, the force behind dope thief.
0:52.3	Thank you for joining you today. Thank you. You know, I want to jump into
0:57.5	a specific aspect of dope thief that I found really fascinating. You know, the book was written
1:02.5	over a decade ago, 2009. A lot of modern elements in the story for something that takes
1:09.4	place in the 2020s, mainly the incorporation of COVID.
1:13.4	I'm curiously your thoughts behind that. I feel ever since COVID happened, it's kind of this
1:18.3	touchy, dodgy subject where people have kind of strayed away from it in storytelling. It feels
1:24.3	like, you know, either cringy or just something we don't want to think about,
1:33.3	but it feels like now we're starting to get to that point of kind of incorporating it into the art we create, no?
1:35.2	Yeah, completely.
1:36.7	It was a weird decision.
1:38.3	I did get pushback on it, but I really wanted to do it for a couple reasons.
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