Team behind Netflix's Adolescence set to remake 'one of the scariest films ever made' shown on TV just four times
The show, starring Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper, has become one of Netflix's most successful ever, already sitting at ninth overall among English-speaking shows on the streamer.
The producers behind Adolescence have not waited long to release their newest projects, with a BBC revenge thriller from the team behind the series releasing today (7 April) on BBC iPlayer.
Clearly striking while the iron is hot however, it was also announced today that Warp Films, the production team behind the Netflix hit, would be making a TV version of Threads.
Threads, the Sheffield filmed movie from 1984, is so disturbing that it has only been shown on TV four times in the last 41 years.
A TV movie made by the BBC, Threads pictured a shockingly realistic possible future of what would happen if Nuclear war were to break out.
The movie has been widely referred to as 'one of the scariest and most disturbing films' ever.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian's senior film critic, called Threads the movie that 'frightened [him] most', going on to say: 'The only film I have been really and truly scared and indeed horrified by - in an intense and sustained way - is Mick Jackson's post-nuclear apocalypse movie Threads.
'It wasn't until I saw Threads that I found that something on screen could make me break out in a cold, shivering sweat and keep me in that condition for 20 minutes, followed by weeks of depression and anxiety.'
The film sits at a perfect 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes and was so unsettling for viewers at the time that it came with a disclaimer from a BBC journalist.
The disclaimer informed people watching that it was fictional, saying: 'How would ordinary people survive the impact of the blast and the conditions that scientists say would result from a nuclear exchange?
'Threads is a drama - the characters and the events are fictional, and it deals with something that has never happened.'
Now, Threads is set to be made into a TV mini-series, with a spokesperson for Warp Films calling the original 'groundbreaking'.
Regarding the TV remake, they said: 'This adaptation will explore prescient issues through rich, character-driven storytelling.'
Warp's founder Mark Herbert spoke to Radio Times following the news, calling the 1984 war film 'an unflinchingly honest drama that imagines the devastating effects of nuclear conflict on ordinary people'.
He went on to add: 'This story aligns perfectly with our ethos of telling powerful, grounded narratives that deeply connect with audiences.'
Unlike Adolescence, I can't see this one playing in schools nationwide.
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