Even though Chris Chibnall seems to have taken lessons from the Mighty Moff on how to keep informations to himself,
EntertainmentWeekly has still managed to talk a bit about
Broadchurch with him
. Of course, if your only motivation to read that rather longish interview is to find some hints dealing with season 2, then save your time and don't read it. The only paragraph in which it gets mentioned reads:
Literally, as I stand here talking to you now, I am standing one foot
away — I’ve now moved, just for the theater of it — in front of the
board which has the whole of the first episode plotted out on it. Every
single bit of the first episode, I’m looking at now… And that’s all I’m
gonna tell you. [...] We know what we’re doing. And I’m really excited about it. For people who are wondering, I promise we have interesting stories still to tell.
The biggest part of the interview features some fascinating production stories, explaining the idea behind certain scenes and why he wanted to do and to shoot some of them in a certain way.
The only point which some may think of as news is that Chibnall is going to be pretty much involved into the American remake.
I’ve written the first episode and I’ll be an executive producer on it. There’s a whole team coming into place on that, and Fox will decide whether they go forward with it. [...] I think there’s a really great opportunity to make something that is hopefully as good if not better than the British version. I’m very, very fascinated to see this story in a different landscape with an acting ensemble that’s just as strong but taken from really great American actors. The DNA of the original is absolutely intact and filtered through a new prism, so it should still feel just as vibrant, and interesting, and strange, and unique, and beautiful, but just in a different setting — and then it’s exploring the dramatic opportunities that that offers up. We’re not gonna do the terrible version. We’re gonna do a great version.
