{"id":9149,"date":"2021-12-23T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1542196"},"modified":"2021-12-23T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:52:13","slug":"go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Go behind the scenes on The Amazing Mr Blunden with Mark Gatiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lauren Morris\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Arriving on our screens this Christmas is Sky\u2019s new take on 1972 classic The Amazing Mr Blunden<\/a> \u2013 an adventure drama about London teenagers who see what appears to be a pair of ghost children after their mother becomes a caretaker for a mysterious old man.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the film\u2019s debut on Sky Max, RadioTimes.com<\/a> can exclusively share a behind-the-scenes clip featuring director and writer Mark Gatiss.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the seven-minute featurette, Gatiss \u2013 who also appears as the villainous Mr Wickens \u2013 speaks about writing new characters for the 1973 film\u2019s original stars: Rosalyn Landor (Sara), Stuart Lock (Tom) and Madeline Smith (Bella).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very important to pay back a debt of pleasure to people who\u2019ve given you so much over the years and this film, because it means so much to me, just from the beginning I said we\u2019ve got to find room for cameos from some of the original cast,\u201d Gatiss says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s lovely that we\u2019re all back together on Mark\u2019s invitation to be a part of this version,\u201d Landor tells Lock and Smith during an interview.<\/p> <p>Later on in the video, the three original cast members sit down for a chat with the young actors who play their roles in the new version, including India Fowler (Sara), Spike Fearn (Tom) and Kitty Archer (Bella).<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming film stars Four Weddings and a Funeral\u2019s Simon Callow as Mr Blunden, which was originally played by Laurence Naismith in the 1972 version, while Friday Night Dinner\u2019s Tamsin Greig plays Mrs Wickens and newcomers Tsion Habte and Jason Rennie play modern day teenagers Lucy and Jamie.<\/p>\n<section class=\""template-article__editor-content\" editor-content=\"\" ev-meter-content=\"\"><strong>The Amazing Mr Blunden airs on Christmas Eve (Friday 24th December) at 7pm on Sky Max. Visit our <a href=\""https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/"\">Fantasy<\/a>\u00a0hub for more news, interviews and features, or find something to watch with our\u00a0<a href=\""https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/"\">TV Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Morris Published: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:00 am Arriving on our screens this Christmas is Sky\u2019s new take on 1972 classic The Amazing Mr Blunden \u2013 an adventure drama about London teenagers who see what appears to be a pair of ghost children after their mother becomes a caretaker for a mysterious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9150,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/12\/go-behind-the-scenes-on-the-amazing-mr-blunden-with-mark-gatiss.jpg",620,413,false]},"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 Lauren Morris Published: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:00 am Arriving on our screens this Christmas is Sky\u2019s new take on 1972 classic The Amazing Mr Blunden \u2013 an adventure drama about London teenagers who see what appears to be a pair of ghost children after their mother becomes a caretaker for a mysterious…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/9149"}],"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\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}