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1) This show is amazing. I once described it as"Bond if Bond was about boring men in ugly suits dying badly in Prague." And it's how I wound up writing the QUEEN & COUNTRY film script. https://twitter.com/JimHenleyMusic/status/1312231521651130368
2) Emma Watts, who hired me a bunch of times as a feature writer when she was a young exec and was terrifying even then, called me in to do QUEEN & COUNTRY. "You know this, right?" I did and I turned her down.
3) I talked about how awesome it was for an hour and then said: "I am not going to be the guy who fucks up QUEEN & COUNTRY."
4) A week later she hits me up again, and I email her back and write "Just make sure whoever you hire has watched SANDBAGGERS"
She emails me back: "Rucka says that show is the spine of Q&C, now get your nerd ass in my office and make this movie."
She emails me back: "Rucka says that show is the spine of Q&C, now get your nerd ass in my office and make this movie."
5) it is one of the two best feature/pilot scripts I've ever written, it will never get made because it's in turnaround hell, I got fired off it for fighting some truly shit notes, DESPITE THAT they've been trying to shoot my draft for 17 years. And I don't regret a moment of it.
6) All that to say, watch SANDBAGGERS, a spy show so accurate there's an excellent chance British Intelligence murdered the showrunner to keep him from blowing any more secrets, and no, that's not a bit.
