‘Utopia’ Creator Gillian Flynn Talks Feral Girls, Pandemics, and Why Thrillers Deserve Their Due

John Lamparski/Getty Images ‘Gone Girl’ author Flynn (above), is a first-time showrunner for her adaptation of the 2013 British series ‘Utopia.’ Gillian Flynn ’s new show Utopia has been in the works since roughly the time her 6-year-old daughter was conceived. The girl is affectionately known as “Kick” — after what she used to do in the womb while the author was working away on the TV series. “She could go feral very quickly, and I say that with all affection,” the bestselling thriller writer-turned-showrunner tells Rolling Stone . “There’s an instinct to tame [children], I think, and I try to resist that. Girls especially need that particular skill set of fierceness — the willingness to push back.” Flynn famously instills that ferocity into each of her female leads — from the scheming, brilliant Amy Elliott Dunne of her breakout 2012 novel Gone Girl to the ice-veined heist squad of the 2018 Steve McQueen film Widows to Jessica Hyde, the nearly feral protagonist of Utopia , a new Amazon Prime series debuting September 25th and based on Dennis Kelly’s original British show. The show is Flynn’s latest foray into TV since co-writing HBO’s Gothic mystery series Sharp Objects , […]

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