Ones to Watch: Writers
DQ casts its eye over a range of upcoming series from around the world and picks out 20 writers to tune in for, from Moshe Zonder (Tehran) to Suzan-Lori Parks (Genius: Aretha) and Chris Van Dusen (Bridgerton). 20. Måns Mårlind One of the original creators of acclaimed crime drama The Bridge, Swedish writer Mårlind followed that series with Midnight Sun, the story of a French detective sent to the very north of Sweden to solve a brutal murder. Now he has created Shadowplay, a series set in a lawless Berlin in 1946 where an American cop arrives to build a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the way. His mission is to take down the Al Capone of the broken city, but he also undertakes a personal crusade to find his missing brother. 19. Jeb Stuart Stuart is the writer two of the biggest action films of the 1980s and 90s, Die Hard and The Fugitive. Now working on something completely different, he has penned Netflix animated drama The Liberator. Based on real events, it tells the story of Second World War infantry commander Felix ‘Shotgun’ Sparks, who led the members of the 157th Infantry Battalion of the 45th Division, an integrated group of white cowboys, Mexican Americans and Native soldiers drawn from across the West. For more than 500 days, they led a group of American soldiers from Italy to France to the liberation of Dachau. 18. Anna Symon Symon penned episodes of period drama Indian Summers before writing … Continue reading Ones to Watch: Writers
