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Inside the Creation of ‘Utopia’s’ Comic Book
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVWhen author and showrunner Gillian Flynn was adapting Dennis Kelly’s U.K. drama series “Utopia” for Amazon Prime Video, the areas she wanted to lean further into were the titular comic book that united her core characters and revealed a dark conspiracy about the outbreak of a global virus, as well as the backstory of a key character, Jessica Hyde (Sasha Lane).“It was an opportunity where we can really tell a whole other layer of story on top of story,” Flynn says.While Flynn and staff writer Ryan Enright penned the comic book script, the visuals came from artist João Ruas.
