We need to honour and prioritise victims first
The gripping nature of the news story wasn't lost on Kevin Sampson, the screenwriter and executive producer behind ITV's new adaptation. "The news coverage was intense," he told. “A lot of the reporting was quite splashy and sensationalist, and there was the added factor of social media coverage.”
Jake Lushington, an executive producer on the show, says, “Some people say it’s too soon to tell this story. Again, that’s a very subjective point of view. For some people, something that happened in 1960 is too soon. Who’s the arbiter of that? In this case, there are some dodgy ‘folklore’ perceptions about these events. I think 13 years is enough time to have some distance from it. Although obviously not for the people affected by it. We can’t avoid that.
He continues: “But if you left it for far too long a time, you are allowing that false understanding of the story to continue. An almost cartoon public perception of what took place. So I think this drama has value in highlighting the true facts of what happened and the impact on those involved. "We think it’s not too soon. A decent amount of time has passed, but it’s not been so long that people have completely forgotten it. So, it connects with an audience.”.While the average TV viewer might be ready to revisit the traumatic news story, with all its accompanying twists and turns, there's no telling how this adaption will impact Moat's victims.
Sampson says that his “immediate aim” when writing the TV series was “to honour those three victims.” He wanted to “portray them as they were, as young, everyday people just getting on with their lives, until that basic freedom and normality was taken away from them.”, “In this instance, Chris Brown’s family felt that too much time had already passed. Their prime concern and a source of ongoing pain is that Chris has been overlooked if not entirely forgotten.
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