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    Is ‘Dope Thief’ on Apple TV+ Based mostly on a True Story?

    Willie MurphyBy Willie MurphyMarch 12, 20254 Mins Read
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    Within the new Apple TV+ sequence Dope Thief, premiering on Friday (March 14), Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura play longtime Philly pals and delinquents who pose as DEA brokers to rob a home within the countryside. In doing so, nevertheless, the duo “unwittingly reveal and unravel the most important hidden narcotics hall on the Jap Seaboard,” because the logline places it.

    However is the brand new drama primarily based on a real story? Not precisely. Dope Thief is fiction, but it surely additionally attracts from the real-life experiences of creator Dennis Tafoya, whose 2009 novel the TV present relies upon. Tafoya’s creator bio says his work as an emergency medical technician impressed Dope Thief’s plot.

    “Once I was an EMT in a Philadelphia emergency room, biker gangs used to hire farmhouses and arrange velocity labs within the countryside not distant,” Tafoya advised Publishers Weekly in 2010. “One night time, one of many labs burned, and we bought calls all night time from folks asking maintain burns. A couple of days later, a badly burned physique confirmed up within the woods. That caught in my head, and ever since I’ve questioned how anyone results in a burning meth lab in the midst of the night time, and when you’ve come to that place, is there any manner again? Is it attainable to create characters who become involved in that form of life and who can nonetheless declare our sympathy?”

    The realism of Tafoya’s tales is a credit score to his hours spent hitting the books. “I’m a fiend for analysis,” the author mentioned in a 2010 interview with fellow novelist Michael A. Ventrella. “I need to get the small print proper, and I need to write about these worlds in addition to I can. I did a ton of analysis for each Dope Thief and [subsequent novel The] Wolves of Fairmount Park. I learn, go to the library, and spend hundreds of hours on the web attempting to study the issues I need to know.”

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    That analysis additionally helps Tafoya get a really feel for a spot like Philadelphia, the setting for Dope Thief. “As a lot as I really like Philly — I spend lots of time in Philly — I nonetheless must learn quite a bit, to get all of the little bits and items that make issues appear actual,” he mentioned in a 2014 interview with creator Jim Knipp. “That’s the stuff that I really like after I learn, and I feel it’s what folks reply to. I don’t suppose anyone has ever taken the time to succeed in out to me to say one thing good about my fiction with out mentioning the locations that I write about.”

    Growth on Dope Thief’s TV adaptation bought going in the summertime of 2022, with Peter Craig (The Batman) approaching board as screenwriter and Ridley Scott (Gladiator II) becoming a member of the undertaking as government producer and director of the primary episode.

    Dope Thief readers can anticipate a distinct story on display screen since Craig advised RadioTimes.com lately that the TV present solely stays trustworthy to the primary half of Tafoya’s novel.

    “Individuals who learn the ebook will discover it attention-grabbing as a result of they’ll discover that lots of the start of the ebook is absorbed into it, and it’s fairly true to it for that part. After which it takes all of that spirit and extends the disaster of the primary half all the way in which and adjustments it to the tip,” Craig mentioned. “Whereas within the ebook, it’s resolved midway by means of, after which there’s a second half that’s a mirrored image, and it’s form of a second story that occurs. The second story isn’t there on this one.”

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    As he scripted the TV model of Dope Thief, Craig included Henry and Moura’s personal traumas and life experiences into the “emotional sculpture” of the present, he advised Artistic Screenwriting.

    Craig additionally referenced Nineteen Seventies crime films like Chinatown, Canine Day Afternoon, and the movies of Sam Peckinpah like The Getaway and Straw Canine.

    “[Peckinpah] let issues get actually uncomfortable, and also you felt like if anyone’s arm bought scraped, you felt that scrape by yourself arm,” Craig mentioned.

    And in one other dose of realism, Craig used this “Peckinpah Impact” to make sure Dope Thief’s characters don’t get away from the felony underworld scot-free. “I don’t need characters to only arise and stroll away from these brutal issues,” he mentioned. “I would like penalties to maintain accumulating by means of the entire present.”

    Dope Thief, Sequence Premiere, Friday, March 14, Apple TV+





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