The Importance of Succession

I'd written another succession forerunner, a script about the US political strategist Lee Atwater for Adam and his producing partner, Kevin Messick. I think a lot of the better films and TV shows have at their heart a quite simple impulse around which the more subtle layers are spun. Chris Morris's Four Lions was driven by his gut feeling that something was very wrong with the way we understood Jihadi terrorism in the UK. Peep Show was about oddball male friendship, perhaps even masculinity. The simple things, at the heart of succession, ended up being Brexit and Trump. It was hard not to feel at the time the show was coming together, the particular impact of one man, of