Benedict Cumberbatch looks to be taking a pool cue from The Handmaid ’s Tale . He ’s signed on to asterisk in and executive director produce a BBC One movie adaption of The Child in Time , a dystopian novel about a kidnapped child , an isolationist regime , and impending warfare with Russia . Because clearly we ’re all eager to depress the hell out of ourselves for the sake of an evening ’s amusement .
The tike in Time , a 1987 novel by Ian McEwan , is a proto - scifi exploration of the nature of clock time . Cumberbatch will bet Stephen Miller , a children ’s author who struggles with his own loss of innocence after his three - year - old daughter is kidnapped . He and others around him come out to see prison term as smooth , getting stuck in their nostalgia in parliamentary law to cope with the horrible world they currently present . Thenovel takes placein neo - Thatcher Britain that ’s cut itself from the world after a scrap between two Olympic jock ( one Russian , the other American ) brings the worldly concern to the threshold of nuclear war . Gee , does n’t all of this sound a shade familiar , a mere 30 long time after being released ?
“ I read the novel years ago and it stayed with me , profound beautiful , and very moving , ” Cumberbatch toldDeadline .
There ’s no news when The Child in Time will be released on BBC One , but justly now Cumberbatch is in use film The Current War , followed by The Avengers : Infinity War , so it might be awhile . In the meanwhile , there ’s always The Handmaid ’s Tale , in case you ’re that eager to loop up in a ball and weep .
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