根据泛美航空103号航班爆炸案改编的连续剧将上映 A drama series about the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland is in development at Channel 4, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald is in charge of the project, which was originally conceived as a film. “We’ve decided to turn it into TV, as is the way of the moment,” Macdonald is quoted as telling the industry journal. Channel 4 would not confirm the project — to be written by Scottish playwright David Harrower — had been commissioned. The Pan Am flight from London to New York exploded 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, 38 minutes after take-off from London on December 21, 1988. The 259 people on board the Boeing 747 were killed, along with 11 people on the ground. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for 27 years in 2001 after being found guilty of Britain’s worst act of terrorism. The Libyan intelligence officer died of prostate* cancer in 2012 after being released on compassionate grounds in 2009. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Macdonald’s series will dramatize* the bombing and the various conspiracy theories surrounding it. Last year he described the Lockerbie bombing as “one of those huge events that sort of casts a shadow over Scottish life.” “It seems like it is Britain’s JFK in some ways — a looming unanswered conspiracy,” he told The Scotsman newspaper. (SD-Agencies) |