FROM UNSHAKEABLE CHILDHOOD DREAD TO LONDON’S ODDEST CORNERS, THE GREATEST LIVING ENGLISHMAN SHARES SOME OF HIS FAVOURITE THINGS WITH NICK SETCHFIELD
MARK GATISS IS THE culmination of his passions. Volcanically so.
“Like a spot!” he laughs, relishing the simile before giving it a gleeful squeeze. “Like a great big boil! all the pus has reached the bursting point in me!” actor. Writer. strangler. Gatiss’s twitter bio omits the word enthusiast, possibly because it scarcely needs stating. From The League Of Gentlemen to Sherlock, his trilogy of Lucifer Box novels to acclaimed documentaries on painter John Minton and the history of screen horror, it’s a career powered by infatuations.
“I’ve been lucky enough to pursue my passions,” he tells SFX as he chooses a mere seven of his touchstones ahead of Christmas ghost tale The Dead Room, which he’s written and directed for BBC Four. “the challenge always is that you don’t fall out of love with it, because it obviously becomes work. You have to do it when you don’t want to do it, and you don’t want to squash all the joy out of it, but i’ve not got there, thank god.
“It all leaves a fingerprint, doesn’t it?”
THE TIME MACHINE (1960)
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PURE AND SIMPLE
IN THE FINAL PART OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, SHOWRUNNER RUSSELL T DAVIES TALKS RELAUNCHING DOCTOR WHO
TO CAP IT ALL OFF
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE BBC SERIES THE TRIPODS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE
SILENT KILLERS
THE DIRECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD'S SPEAK NO EVIL REMAKE ON HORROR, COMEDY AND JAMES MCAVOY
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS FINALLY - IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
TEENAGE DREAM
JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING
MOB RULE THE PENGUIN
GOTHAM'S UP FOR GRABS IN BRUISING NEW CRIME SAGA BUT WHERE IS THE BATMAN?
SEASON OF THE WITCH
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Those '70s Shows
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