I've never really been able to understand the impulse to remake films, and in the case of Threads it seems even more incomprehensible. Mick Jackson and Barry Hines' 1984 original is, after all, perfection in all its harrowing bleakness - yet there are those who clearly feel it could be done better.
On the one hand, if anyone was going to do it justice, it would be Warp Films - partly because of their track record (not least Adolescence), and partly because of their location in Sheffield, the city in which Threads is set.
On the other, however, Jackson is absolutely right to be concerned by Warp's Emily Feller claiming that the remake will highlight "how resilience and connection can offer hope even in the most challenging of times". As he told Empire, suitably bluntly, "hope is not part of nuclear war". The overall message of Threads is resoundingly clear and should stay that way, however horrifically grim it might seem.
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