'LAST LIGHT' DIRECTOR ON FINDING ‘LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS’ OF PEACOCK’S NEW DYSTOPIAN THRILLER - SyFy

Last Light may illuminate some pretty dystopian doomsday themes, but executive producer and director Dennie Gordon hopes the Peacock event series will leave viewers with a beam of optimism. “There’s a little bit of light in the darkness — if we act fast,” she explains, flagging the series’ disaster-averting message.

Gordon teamed with Lost alum Matthew Fox to bring Last Light to the small screen, each sharing executive producing roles in adapting author Alex Scarrow’s eponymous book about a world in the throes of a mysteriously hatched oil crisis. Fox stars as a chemist recruited to discover what’s suddenly tainted the world’s oil supply; both he and Gordon collaborated early in the series’ development to craft a tone that dares to peer into the apocalyptic abyss…without going over the edge

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