{"id":36864,"date":"2023-09-15T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1889764"},"modified":"2023-09-15T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:06:45","slug":"wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilderness writer explains how Taylor Swift collaboration came about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Marnie Dickens explained the choice to have the re-recorded version of Look What You Made Me Do as the show&#8217;s title credits theme. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By James Hibbs\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 15 September 2023 at 06:00 AM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>When the first teaser trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/wilderness-prime-video-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilderness<\/a> was released in August, it was also the first opportunity for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/taylor-swift-albums-in-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Swift<\/a> fans got to hear her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/wilderness-prime-video-teaser-taylor-swift-newsupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-recorded version of Look What You Made Me Do<\/a>, which is also the series\u2019 title track.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the song throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/wilderness-prime-video-release-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the series<\/a>, which stars Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, was part of a collaboration with Swift, which the show\u2019s creator Marnie Dickens explained while speaking exclusively with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dickens said: \u201cI always write my commercial songs into the script myself because it feels like a really important way to access a character. In this case, it\u2019s basically Liv\u2019s playlist that we\u2019re listening to through the series. And I had already written Look What You Made Me Do into episode 2, which obviously has now the juicy fun of Ashley singing along to it, which I just love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen Prime Video, who\u2019ve been so supportive of the whole endeavour, said, \u2018Look, we will back you guys to get a major female artists to do the title track, think about who you\u2019d like that to be\u2019. And I was like, \u2018Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/vmas-2023-winners-full-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Swift<\/a> obviously, let\u2019s dream big\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Wilderness | Official Teaser Trailer | Prime Video\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxmmzaM2L_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>Dickens continued: \u201cThen we had our amazing music supervisors, Pete [Saville] and Zo\u00eb [Ellen Bryant], who did the kind of official pursuit, and then I wrote, essentially, a love letter explaining why it had to be her. Because it\u2019s just so rich, that song, and it\u2019s so perfect for us \u2013 the fun of it, but also the emotion behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/martin-clunes-itv-out-there-newsupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Clunes reunites with Manhunt writer for new ITV drama Out There<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/morning-show-crudup-hamm-bromance-exclusive-newsupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Morning Show\u2019s exec producer talks Billy Crudup and Jon Hamm bromance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wilderness follows Liv, a woman who goes on a road trip with her husband Will, designed for the pair to revive their marriage after Will has had an affair. However, little does Will know that Liv\u2019s main purpose on the trip is very different to his \u2013 she\u2019s looking for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The show is based on the 2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B07JZJC78N\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?tag=radtim0b-21&amp;ascsubtag=radiotimes-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" data-geniuslink=\"https:\/\/buy.geni.us\/Proxy.ashx?TSID=114542&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB07JZJC78N%2Fref%3Ddbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0%3Ftag%3Dradtim0b-21%26ascsubtag%3Dradiotimes-1889660&amp;dtb=1\">novel of the same name<\/a> by BE Jones, but Dickens explained while speaking with <strong>RadioTimes.com<\/strong> that fans of the book will find that the story on screen takes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/wilderness-writer-book-big-detour-exclusive-newsupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cbig detour\u201d<\/a> from the original plot.<\/p> <p>Dickens explained: \u201cBev\u2019s been very supportive of us doing what you need to do with an adaptation, which is working out what works and then building out from that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe central premise of the \u2018young British couple going on this road trip to try and patch up their relationship but she\u2019s got ulterior motives\u2019 is very much there. The big twist, which I obviously won\u2019t go into, is from the book, and then the rest is just built out with a lot of elbow grease.\u201d<\/p> <div class=\"brightcove embed\"> <div class=\"embed__intrinsic\"> <div class=\"brightcove__player vjs-playlist-player-container\"> <video data-video-id=\"6337023075112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"video-js\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js\"\/> <p><strong>Wilderness launches globally on Prime Video on 15th September 2023. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\"><strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Marnie Dickens explained the choice to have the re-recorded version of Look What You Made Me Do as the show&#8217;s title credits theme. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":36865,"template":"","categories":[6,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-scaled.jpg",2560,1703,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-1024x681.jpg",800,532,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-1536x1022.jpg",1536,1022,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2023\/09\/wilderness-writer-explains-how-taylor-swift-collaboration-came-about-2048x1363.jpg",2048,1363,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Marnie Dickens explained the choice to have the re-recorded version of Look What You Made Me Do as the show's title credits theme.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/36864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}