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New Sandra Bullock film The Unforgivable<\/a> has made its way to the number one position on Netflix\u2019s top 10 list over the weekend, with viewers gripped by the thriller\u2019s twists and turns.<\/p>\n The film follows a woman who has just finished serving a long prison sentence for murdering a police officer and is determined to reunite herself with her younger sister \u2013 who was adopted by another family following her arrest.<\/p>\n Her mission is made all the more challenging by the fact she\u2019s being pursued by the son of the man she\u2019d shot all those years ago \u2013 and so it becomes a race against time to do something before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n That story might sound a little familiar, and so you could be wondering if the film has its roots in a real-life case \u2013 read on for everything you need to know.<\/p> No, the film is not based on real events. The reason that it might be familiar is actually rather more straightforward \u2013 it is adapted from a three-part ITV drama that originally aired in 2009.<\/p>\n That drama, which was written by Sally Wainwright and starred Suranne Jones in the Sandra Bullock role, was titled Unforgiven \u2013 and the new film has presumably been retitled in part to avoid confusion with the classic Clint Eastwood revisionist Western of the same name.<\/p>\n A Hollywood remake had been on the cards for a long time, with Mission: Impossible\u2019s Christopher McQuarrie and The Queen\u2019s Gambit\u2019s Scott Frank among those to have been attached to write and direct at various points during development.<\/p>\n In the end, the screenplay was adapted by Peter Craig, Hillary Seitz and Courtenay Miles, with German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt in the director\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n It is far from the first time an acclaimed British TV series has been made into an American film \u2013 with previous examples including\u00a0Paul Abbott\u2019s State of Play and Dennis Potter\u2019s The Singing Detective.<\/p>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Monday, 13 December 2021 at 12:00 am New Sandra Bullock film The Unforgivable has made its way to the number one position on Netflix\u2019s top 10 list over the weekend, with viewers gripped by the thriller\u2019s twists and turns. The film follows a woman who has just finished serving a long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8627,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-scaled.jpg",2560,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-768x384.jpg",768,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-1024x512.jpg",800,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-1536x768.jpg",1536,768,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/is-the-unforgivable-a-true-story-2048x1024.jpg",2048,1024,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":"By Patrick Cremona Published: Monday, 13 December 2021 at 12:00 am New Sandra Bullock film The Unforgivable has made its way to the number one position on Netflix\u2019s top 10 list over the weekend, with viewers gripped by the thriller\u2019s twists and turns. The film follows a woman who has just finished serving a long…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/8626"}],"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\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Is The Unforgivable a true story?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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