Thorne (TV series)
| Thorne | |
|---|---|
| Starring |
David Morrissey Eddie Marsan Aidan Gillen Natascha McElhone Sandra Oh O-T Fagbenle |
| Country of origin |
United Kingdom Canada |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Morrissey |
| Running time | 60mins (inc. adverts) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sky1 |
| Original release | 10 October – 14 November 2010 |
Thorne, a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010, is based on crime writer Mark Billingham's novels. The series stars David Morrissey in the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, and includes Aidan Gillen, Eddie Marsan, and Natascha McElhone as supporting cast members.
As well as the lead role of the series, Morrissey is executive producer. He describes how he became involved as follows:
I was doing a film in New Zealand, on my own, in winter. I really needed a book. I stumbled across a Thorne novel, liked it, and then I looked up Mark online and found a question-and-answer session where he said that if his books ever made it to the screen, he’d like David Morrissey to play the lead. I thought, "That’s a good start".
The series of six episodes comprised two, three-part, dramatizations of the first two Thorne novels. In the first three-parter, Sleepyhead, Thorne has to track down and stop a serial killer who aims to leave his victims alive but unable to communicate because of locked-in syndrome. The second is Scaredy Cat, which features two serial killers apparently working in tandem.
The makers of the series stated in 2010 a desire to eventually film all ten Thorne novels. In February 2011, David Morrissey stated that he was set to star in and produce another series of Thorne. However, in his Christmas 2012 newsletter, Thorne author Mark Billingham stated that Morrissey's success in The Walking Dead has suspended plans for a further Thorne novels to be serialized. As of 2015, no other comments have been made about a possible second series.
As with other TV/film adaptations, there are many differences between the books and the television series. In the books, Brigstocke is a man (Russell Brigstocke); Dave Holland is not black; and Phil Hendricks is a tall, bald, heavily pierced, heavily tattooed Mancunian, not a short, partly tattooed Irishman with a full head of hair.
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