UK producers share excitement for ‘bold’ remake of controversial 1980s film set in post-apocalyptic SheffieldWith several wars raging, powerful countries squaring up and the world seemingly tilting towards authoritarianism, it would seem a challenging time to expose television audiences to a notoriously bleak story of a British city experiencing the fallout from nuclear war.Yet a UK team of producers behind the global Netflix hit Adolescence believe it is precisely the right time to recreate Threads, a British film from the 1980s that had audiences weeping and horrified at its pitiless storyline. Continue reading...