'The Crown' Creator Peter Morgan Reveals His Next Project
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The Crown creator Peter Morgan is leaving behind the British royal family—for the time being.
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In a new interview with Variety, Morgan shared his next project: an adaptation of Boys from Brazil. The novel by Ira Levin, published in 1976, follows Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann (loosely based on Simon Wiesenthal) and the search for Josef Mengele, the so-called "Angel of Death"—a Nazi doctor who performed experiments on concentration camp prisoners. The book was adapted into a film two years later, starring Gregory Peck as Mengele and Laurence Olivier as Liebermann.
Morgan cautioned his interviewer not to give away the plot of the film, saying, "There’s a generation of people who don’t know what happens." It's as yet unclear if he's making a new movie, or television series.
"I really want to write some men again," he said. "For me, The Crown, even though there are male characters in it, it feels like a female show. I’ve always felt I was writing a feminine show — where the protagonist was female, and everything radiated out of that. I think I want to write a couple of things now which feel masculine. I feel like re-engaging with that."
Morgan continued, "But for now, I’d like to do something where people aren’t polite, aren’t upper-class British, and they have guns. I want some guns. Yesterday, I met a couple of fellow showrunners who were talking about scenes where they were talking about disposing a body. And how did they deal with it, dramaturgically? I was so envious. I want that problem! I want a problem of how to deal with a body."
In The Boys From Brazil, he said there will be "a lot" of bodies. "There’s a really excessive amount of death," he said. "I'm making sure of that."
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In the same interview, however, Morgan shared he hasn't ruled out the possibility of a prequel to The Crown. "It would start further back, and then move forward in time," he said. But there's no movement on that project yet, he shared. "I am enjoying my time outside the Palace gates, and I’m excited to do these other stories. But if I don’t become too decrepit at some point, I might like to do that because the story is sensational."
He added, "One of the reasons why I hold on to the opportunity of still going back to The Crown is because of a complex female character at the heart of things, and I enjoyed that."
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