Public opinion was pretty intransigent, so all these agents were sent over to try to feed stories to the media. We forget, eight out of 10 Americans didn’t want to join the war. 2 Calendar section said that “Restless,” a miniseries based on his novel, premieres Friday on Sundance. William Boyd: The Creative Minds feature about novelist-screenwriter William Boyd in the Dec. “Restless” focuses on an overlooked chapter in the history of World War II. Next is another novel, as yet untitled, about a better-known British spy: James Bond. It stars “Downton Abbey’s” Michelle Dockery as Ruth Gilmartin, a young woman who discovers that her mother (Charlotte Rampling) was a spy involved in the British Security Coordination, a covert mission to sway American public opinion toward intervention in the war in Europe. “Restless,” the two-part miniseries Boyd wrote from his 2006 novel of the same name, premieres Dec. His long list of industry credits includes scripts based on his own work (the miniseries “Any Human Heart”), novels by the likes of Evelyn Waugh (“Scoop”) and biographies (“Chaplin”). British novelist and screenwriter William Boyd doesn’t buy the conventional wisdom that a writer should never adapt his own books.
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