Creating TNT's Will: Craig Pearce and Shekhar Kapur
b"'Will,' the new series on TNT, tells stories derived from what we often call Shakespeare\\u2019s \\u201clost years\\u201d\\u2014the time before he made a name for himself as a writer. The series takes advantage of that gaping hole in Shakespeare\\u2019s biography to weave an intricate and exciting tale of art, strife, death, love, poetry, and violence in Elizabethan England.\\n\\nExecutive producer/writer Craig Pearce and executive producer/director Shekhar Kapur tell us about adapting Shakespeare's biography\\u2014or lack thereof\\u2014into a new television show with a punk rock aesthetic. Pearce and Kapur are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. \\n\\nFrom the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published July 12, 2017. \\xa9 Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, \\u201cWe'll Tell Tales\\u201d was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. Special thanks Martine Resnick, Scott Radloff, Heather Crawford, and Kristin Boos at TNT; Tony Ward, Sharon Bowe, Ruth Waites, Pete Smith, and Alison Atkey at the BBC in London; Melissa Kuypers and Peter Stenshoel at NPR-West in Culver City, California; as well as Shekhar Kapur\\u2019s assistant, Rhiannon Allen, and Craig Pearce\\u2019s assistant, Angus Wilkinson."