“Bret and I have been friends for years, but we’ve never actually worked together. Lots of research has been conducted, but Welsh is yet to sit down with Easton Ellis to work out how they will share writing duties. It means the project is far more advanced than American Tabloid, which is in the very early stages of development. The writer has completed rough drafts of four scripts and getting the remaining two done is now his priority. It’s a challenge, but the advantage is you have so much extra time,” says Welsh. We want somebody to look at episode three and say, ‘That was a f*cking great bit of television’ without watching episodes one or six.
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With TV you’ve got to do that right across the whole series, but you’ve also got to do it for every individual episode. “With film you’ve got the three-act structure, where you establish the character, throw some stones and you get the payoff at the end. He admits, however, it’s not been easy moving from films to the new medium. Welsh has evidently relished the new challenge of writing for television, reveling in the bigger canvas on which to paint stories. “There is clearly more material to be developed for television,” he adds, saying that he would like to return to the fish out of water Miami story of the original novel. Welsh has re-immersed himself in the world of Lennox and says he has enough new material to fashion up to two new novels, as well as the BritBox series. He’s quite a messed up guy with drug and sex addictions, and he’s using the hunting of sex offenders as a therapy for himself.” “As well as trying to solve a crime in real-time, he’s also confronting his own demons. It’s almost like an origins story - how he went on to become a hunter of sex offenders,” Welsh explains. “The bulk of the novel is set in Miami, but for the first six episodes, we’re concentrating on the part that’s set in Edinburgh, which is only about a quarter or a fifth of the novel. The TV series, however, centers on Lennox’s time in Edinburgh. Most of the story is set in Florida, with Lennox becoming embroiled in an effort to protect another victim of sexual predation. The book follows Lennox having fled to Miami from his home city of Edinburgh in the wake of a cocaine-fueled mental health breakdown and a harrowing child sex murder investigation. I’ve never seen an actor so motivated to play a role before.” He has always said to me that he was born to play this part.
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