Adrian Hodges

Adrian Hodges
Born	England
Occupation	Screenwriter, writer, producer
Known for	Survivors (2008), BBC1. A modern version of the 1970s drama series set in a post-apocalyptic Britain.

Adrian Hodges is a British television and film writer.

He began his career in journalism for Screen International magazine and his screenwriting debut was the 1991 television drama Tell Me That You Love Me, followed by screenplays for The Bridge (1992) and Tom & Viv (1994) for which Miranda Richardson and Rosemary Harris both received Oscar nominations.

After his film adaptation of Julian Barnes's Metroland (1997) Hodges concentrated on writing for television, including Amongst Women (1998), his adaptation of John McGahern's novel for BBC TWO which received a BAFTA nomination for Best Serial and won the Grand Prix award at the Banff Television Festival, The Lost World (2001) and Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003).

In 2005 he wrote the episode "Triumph" for the HBO-BBC series Rome. He has since adapted two of Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart stories for TV: The Ruby in the Smoke (2006) and The Shadow in the North (production completed 2007).

He is co-creator of the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval, for which he wrote four episodes. As of 2010 Hodges is currently working on a fourth and fifth season of Primeval, to be aired in 2011 and 2012. In 2008 he was also reported to be working on and a new adaptation of Silas Marner.

On 22 November 2007, the BBC announced that they were going to remake Survivors, as written by Adrian Hodges. Two series were shown on BBC One, in 2008 and 2010.

Hodges wrote and adapted the screenplay for the 2011 film, My Week with Marilyn.

Filmography

• Survivors
  • "Series One, Episode One" (2008)
  • "Series One, Episode Two" (2008)
  • "Series One, Episode Five" (2008)
  • "Series One, Episode Six" (2008)
  • "Series Two, Episode One" (2010)
  • "Series Two, Episode Six" (2010)
• Primeval
  • "Episode One" (2007)
  • "Episode Two"(2007)
  • "Episode Three"(2007)
  • "Episode Six"(2007)
  • "Episode Seven"(2008)
  • "Episode Eight"(2008)
  • "Episode Thirteen"(2008)
  • "Episode Thirty-Six"(2011)
• The Sally Lockhart Mysteries
  • The Ruby in the Smoke (Screenplay, based upon the novel by Phillip Pullman) (2006)
  • The Shadow in the North (Screenplay, based upon the novel by Phillip Pullman) (2007)
  • The Tiger in the Well (Screenplay, based upon the novel by Phillip Pullman) (Production)

External links

• Adrian Hodges at the Internet Movie Database