Some stories around pandemics seems very prescient – when did you write those bits? ![]() But then I thought, what if these disasters happen all the time and a group of people have undone them? Then it became a new and fresh way of doing time-loop and time-travel stuff. And I was thinking, how have we avoided a cataclysmic disaster?! Plus I was reading about how the world’s nuclear weapons are getting really old, the systems around them are decrepit and still run off floppy disks – all this depressing stuff. It’s really about the near misses we’ve had, when the Doomsday Clock gets almost past midnight. Only the calmness of one or two Russian soldiers meant they didn’t launch a nuclear weapon and start World War 3. Joe Barton: I remember reading about the Cuban Missile Crisis and times where there was an incident, like a Russian submarine whose radar picked up something that they thought might be an American nuclear missile and they couldn’t get hold of their superiors. The Big Issue: What sparked the idea for The Lazarus Project? If you had the power to turn back time, would you use it to save the person you love most – even if it means changing billions of lives?Īhead of the series airing on Sky and NowTV, Barton called us to explain how his highly addictive new thriller grew from real-world fears about the end of the world… I was reading about how the world’s nuclear weapons are getting really old… and I was thinking, how have we avoided a cataclysmic disaster?! Joe BartonĪnd his other big concept? To set a mindbending moral poser for his main character. His big concept? What if a secretive band of time-travelling renegades were able to reset the world to an agreed date each year if the end of the world was nigh?īecause what sounds like a good fall-back option, a handy way to save the planet for humanity, has huge implications for everyone. The new show takes the idea that we might constantly be on the verge of nuclear armageddon or extinction-by-global pandemic and runs with it. ![]() It isn’t hard to do, right? Writer Joe Barton, who penned critical smash Giri/Haji, returns with smart action thriller The Lazarus Project – a show that’s equal parts high octane car chases, heart-wrenching love stories and a thought-provoking meditation on personal and global apocalypses! Imagine a world in which man-made and natural disasters are a constant threat.
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