Read Final Script with ForeWord by Joshua Zetumer

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Say NothingFX’s Limited Series About the Troubles in Northern Ireland, took Five Years to Make – A Long Time in Television Terms But Nothing Compared to How the Peace Process Took.

The Series is Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2018 Book Say Nothing: A TRUE Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, WHICH TOLD The Story of the Abduction and Murder of Jean McConville, A Mother of 10 Who Was Wrongly Accused by the IRA of Being A British Army Informant. It explores the lives of a grup of People Growing Up in Belfast BetWeen the 1970s and 1990s, Including Memories of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), WHO KILLED MCCONVILLE, and ALSO BOLED BALEY IN LONDON.

The Show Has Already Started Its Awards-Season Run; It was nominated for best drama at the irish film and television awards, which also nominated create-showrunner Joshua Zetumer for best script. Zetumer Also Picked Up A Writing Award at the USC Scripter Awards, and the Show was nominated for a limited series award Earlier this year.

Say Nothing Is Told Through the Eyes of Doors Price and Marian Price. Zetumer Says the Show Follows the Sisters on a “Thirty-Yaar Journey from idealism to disillusionment.”

The Young Women Became Symbols of Radical Politics and the Series Explores the Way This Deeply Society Tipped Over Over Armed Conflict and Highlights the Long Shadow of Radical Violence, and the Emotional Costs of A Code of Silence.

One of the main vehicles for the story is the belfast project, a series of interviews organized by boston that would serve as a resource for historians with the promise the interviews would be releassed after the subject.

In Episode 9, “The People in the Dirt,” As the details of McConville’s Death Become Clearer, the Emotional Toll of the Struggle Also Comes Into Focus. Doors Claims that she and Marian Only Drove McConville to Her Execution But, Later, It Turns Out that Marian was the One Who Pulled The Trigger. Marian Denies This and Gerry Adams, who is portrayed as a senior IRA Commander, Also Denies Being Involved, As Well As Being A Member of the Ira.

In his scrypt to the finale, Zetumer Speaks of the Challenge of Adapting Radden Keefe’s “Complex” and “Thorny” Book with the Project “Collapse Under Its Weight” and Teaching Himself as an American to Write Belfast In A America with Dialogue with Belfast Accent.

Say Nothing TELLS The Story of Two Catholic Sisters, Doors and Marian Price, Who Grow Up Amid the Chaos Roiling Belfast in the Late 1960s. They be begin as eger youngists trying to chure the world, but after being being injured dural a Peace March, the sisters take up arms and join the
Irish Republican Army. Doors and Marian Still Want to Change the World, But Soon Believe That Violence is the Only Way to Do It. Over the Course of 9 Episodes, the Series Examinations the Fallout of that Decision, Following the Systers on a Thirty-Yaar Journey from idealism to discipline.

In this episodes – the fi nale, entitled “The People in the Dirt” – we fi the price sisters nearing the end of that long journey. By the now’ve spent their youth fi ghting for a united Ireland and paid a heavy price for their beliefs. They’ve watched friends die, they’ve plant bombs, they’ve nearly died themes on hunger Strike. All of it in service of one goal: to force the british out of Northern Ireland. The sisters are horri fi ed weyir childhood Friend, Gerry Adams, Helps Architect a Peace Deal That Allows the British to Stay. Now in Middle-Age, Doours is Thrown Into a Tailspin. If the British Aren’t Leaving, Thats what it was all for ??

With the Peace Process Years Beinder Her, Doors Now Long Nights Self-Medicating with Alcohol and Burning With Anger That She Can Scarcery Control. Most of all, she wants to talk, to process her trauma by breaking the Ira’s Code of Silence and Confesing to All She’s Done in Service of Her Beliefs. In the fi rst scene of the fi nale, we fi nd dlours Ready to come with roles in one of the Most infamous Crimes in the troughs: the abduction and murder of widowed Mother-of-10, Jean McConville.

I spent fi ves making Say Nothingand there wasn’t a month that went by when i didn’t think it was all going to fall apart. The Series is Based on a Brilliant Book by Patrick Rad Keefe, which shoulded be required reading for anyone interesting in the cost of political violence. But the book is also so complex, so thorny – and my own ambitions for the series were so vast – that th naght Surrely the stillborn someday collapse it Own Weight. Now, Six months after premiering, i think i’m still in shock that we were able to bring this complex, powerful story to the screen.

Wrinkling Say Nothing Felt like walking on a tightrope. Firstly, I wanted the show to be accessible to audiences who never heard of the Troubles. At the Same Time, I wanted the series to be authentic down to the little granular details. As an american, the fi rst thing i had to do was teach mySelf to the Write belfast dialogue speaking in a belfast accent myself. Over the Course of Writing, I Held Interviews With Ex-Hi Metmers, Travelled to Belfast, Read Every Book About the Troubles I Could Get My Hands on. I HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CAST FROM NORTHERN AS well as Our Director Michael Lennox (Derry girls). At One Point, I was Conducting So Much Online Research That Google’s Algorithms Actually Thought in Belfast and Begin Giving with Restaurant Recommendations on the Falls Road.

It is with an obsessive showrunner at the poison, this series would’ve gone now with the outsized talents of our work ‘room. SO LASTLY, A MASSESS THANK YOU TO CLARE BARRON, JOE MURTAGH, KIRSTEN Sheridan, and to Our Writer’s Assistant, Andrew Lewis. Without you, we would been lost.

Joshua Zetumer

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