The creators of BBC One’s The Tourist, Jack and Harry Williams, have teased the upcoming thriller, revealing that fans can expect “emotion, jeopardy, tension and narrative surprise” from the six-parter.
The Tourist is the latest drama from the Williams brothers, who’ve produced Back to Life, Angela Black, Baptiste and Fleabag, with Jamie Dornan starring as a British man who wakes up in the Australian Outback after a car accident with no memory of who he is.
Speaking to RadioTimes.com in an exclusive interview, Jack said about the show: “I think it’s surprising, not just plot-wise but I think tone-wise. The places it goes are weirder and stranger than episode one even would suggest and I think people like that.
“It certainly doesn’t settle into the– it pays homage to it, it doesn’t settle into the rhythms of what you might expect a thriller like this to be about. I think we hit a lot of those notes and there’s action and there’s definite emotion and jeopardy and tension and narrative surprise.
“But there are also moments that, frankly, are pretty f**king weird. We’re very delighted that the BBC and [US broadcaster] HBO Max understand and let us do it. Particularly by the time we get to episode five, there’s some choices that I’m not sure the show would have made and hopefully people enjoy it,” he continued.
“Hopefully, it marks it out from other offerings on TV that it’s constantly trying to surprise and entertain and reverse your expectations of what you think is going to happen.”
While Harry, when asked to describe the drama is three words, answered: “Surprising, weird and hopefully unique.”
The series also features Unbelievable’s Danielle Macdonald, Line of Duty star Shalom Brune-Franklin, The Missing’s Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Mindhunter‘s Damon Herriman.