Built to Last: Bonafide Films MD Margery Bone
Bonafide Films is set to break out with a wartime period drama penned by Peter Moffat. MD Margery Bone tells Michael Pickard why The Last Post is just the beginning. From grenade attacks and roadside bombs to conflict and terrorism, The Last Post could be a study of soldiering set against today’s political landscape. Instead, the eight-part series’ focus falls on Aden, 1965, at the end of the British Empire as writer Peter Moffat recalls his childhood memories to tell the story of a British army unit fighting insurgency in the Middle East and the women and children who were there with them. Exploring his father’s life as an officer in the Royal Military Police and his mother’s struggle between being what the army required and what she felt like, Moffat also draws upon the pressures and excitement of being married to someone in the army at a moment when sex and feminism also begin to emerge in the 20th century. The story will also follow the regiment over several key strategic postings over that period – from Aden to Hong Kong to Cold War Germany in the early 1970s, and then to Belfast during the Troubles in the mid-1970s. The forthcoming BBC1 series is produced by Bonafide Films and The Forge Entertainment, and is due to air in spring 2017. A director is currently being sought ahead of filming, which is due to begin in September this year. For Bonafide MD Margery Bone (pictured top), the show emerged from … Continue reading Built to Last: Bonafide Films MD Margery Bone
