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Christopher Hampton on adapting his friend J.G. Farrell’s novel The Singapore Grip for ITV:

Christopher Hampton on adapting his friend J.G. Farrell’s novel The Singapore Grip for ITV:

Christopher Hampton on adapting his friend J.G. Farrell’s novel The Singapore Grip for ITV:

‘I never imagined I would do it’

Four  decades after J.G. Farrell's death, the author's final novel has been  made into a drama starring David Morrissey, Charles Dance, Luke  Treadaway and Elizabeth Tan.
J.G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip was published in 1978, just a year before the Booker Prize-winning  novelist’s tragic death in a fishing accident at the age of 44. And now  that final novel has been adapted for ITV by his “admirer and friend”  Christopher Hampton – who says he could “never” have imagined he would  get the chance to bring it to the small screen.
See the complete story in the below link: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-09-03/the-singapore-grip-adapting-writer-interview/

The Singapore Grip review: ITV’s sumptuous drama is a gentle satire on British colonialism

Christopher Hampton on adapting his friend J.G. Farrell’s novel The Singapore Grip for ITV:

Christopher Hampton on adapting his friend J.G. Farrell’s novel The Singapore Grip for ITV:

Adapted from the novel by JG Farrell, this pacy six-part drama features  excellent performances from David Morrissey, Luke Treadaway, Georgia  Blizzard and Elizabeth Tan.

The Singapore Grip, ITV’s sumptuous new six-part ITV drama is based on  JG Farrell’s (extremely long) 1978 novel, and was adapted by the  Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton, who counts himself as a  “friend and admirer” of the late author. Farrell unexpectedly died aged  44 shortly after this book was published, leaving behind a body of work  consisting of three hefty novels – the ‘Empire Trilogy’ – about British  colonial rule in Ireland, India, and finally Singapore, and Hampton has  labelled it “the most significant chunk of writing about colonialism in  fiction that exists.” 

See the complete story in the below link: 

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-09-03/the-singapore-grip-itv-review/

David Morrissey: 'Britain needs to "be honest" about "ourselves and our history"'

Christopher Hampton on adapting his friend J.G. Farrell’s novel The Singapore Grip for ITV:

David Morrissey: 'Britain needs to "be honest" about "ourselves and our history"'

"We pick and choose the events we want to highlight."


The Walking Dead's David Morrissey leads the cast of new ITV series The Singapore Grip, a political drama about the Japanese invasion of Singapore in World War II.

Morrissey stars as cruel rubber merchant Walter Blackett – who is co-head of British Singapore's most powerful company alongside his business partner Webb (Charles Dance).

Speaking about the series and his character, Morrissey said that Britain needs to "be honest" about "ourselves and our history",

"These people, for me, are the embodiment of entitlement. They are racist, they are a bit monstrous, they're sexist," he told Digital Spy exclusively.

"What happens to them is a part of our history, a part of our British colonial history that we don't know that much about. It's a part of history that I didn't know about because we very conveniently – when it comes to empire and our own history – pick and choose the events we want to highlight.


Read the full story here: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a33957020/singapore-grip-david-morrissey-britain-history/

ITV UK Premiere of The Singapore Grip. Sun Sept 13th 9pm BST

The Singapore Grip’s Luke Treadaway on the British Empire drama:

David Morrissey: 'Britain needs to "be honest" about "ourselves and our history"'

ITV’s adaptation of JG Farrell’s 1978 satirical novel The Singapore  Grip has been penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher Hampton,  and takes a blackly comic look at the British Empire in colonial-era  Singapore.

Set in World War II, the drama tells the story of a British family  living in 1940s Singapore at the time of the Japanese invasion, who find  their trading company under threat.

See the complete story in the below link:

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-09-04/singapore-grip-release-date-luke-treadaway-david-morrissey-charles-dance-itv/

The Singapore Grip’s Luke Treadaway on the British Empire drama:

The Singapore Grip’s Luke Treadaway on the British Empire drama:

The Singapore Grip’s Luke Treadaway on the British Empire drama:

‘We owe it to the future not to sugar-coat history’

This adaptation of JG Farrell's 1978 darkly satirical novel is set in  colonial Singapore, beginning just before the Japanese invasion.

When The Singapore Grip‘s  “naïve and innocent moralistic” young protagonist Matthew Webb (Luke Treadaway) arrives in colonial Singapore, he is disgusted by what he  finds: his father’s friends and business partners living a life of  excess, all while sneering at the locals and exploiting their labour and  resources. Meanwhile, the threat of Japanese invasion looms – but the  leading lights of the British Empire are too busy partying (or are too  convinced of their own military superiority) to pay attention. 

See the complete story in the below link: 

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-09-03/the-singapore-grip-luke-treadaway-empire/

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