"Being
perfectly honest, have you tried reading Dracula or
Frankenstein? You'd be found dead of boredom. Fiction for a
dustier age - stories that never had to compete with The
X-Factor. Actually, Jekyll and Hyde is really good, but
it's built around one big, amazing twist that I'm going to
blow for you right now - Jekyll and Hyde are the same
person... What survives of that original story is a big,
grand, mad idea - the man who turns into his own demon. And
that's too big and grand and mad to be locked into one plot.
Everyone should have a turn. And, yes, purists are going to
say that's wrong and wicked, and that the achievement of
Robert Louis Stevenson is worthy of greater respect. But
what bigger achievement is there than creating a story that
everyone wants to tell?"
Steven Moffat,
interviewed for The Guardian, on how he overcame the
'respect' problem when adapting The Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde. You can read the full article
here.
Nowhere to Hyde -
Steven Moffat writes about the making of Jekyll, The
Big Question, and Gina Bellman's girlfriends. Originally
published in Square Eyes, Winter 2007, by BBC Worldwide
Sympathy For
The Devil by Louise Welsh, article in The Guardian,
9 June 2007
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