A trailer has been released for FX's Say Nothing, based on the nonfiction bestselling book by Patrick Radden Keefe. IndieWire reported that the project "tells the true story of 'The Troubles,' the decades-long conflict between the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, including the rise of the Irish Republican Army. As part of that, the story delves into 'the Disappeared,' centering, like the book, on the mystery of a missing mother of 10."
Adapted by Joshua Zetumer, the series cast includes Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, and Josh Finan.
Keefe called the characters "complicated," saying, "How you feel about them should shift. And I think that the challenge for us, this was true for me with the book, very, very true with the series, is: How do you capture the romance of those politics without romanticizing them yourself? And I think part of the answer is that you show the costs not just in the final episodes... but from the very first scene. The first person you meet is Jean McConville [one of the Disappeared]. And the hope is that the sense of those costs kind of hangs over the whole series, even when it's kind of lark-y bank heists and so forth, that you have a sense that there is this kind of Tell-Tale Heart beating in the background."
Zetumer added: "I think one of the things we were trying to do from the beginning was capture the energy of what it feels like to be in your twenties or a teenager and really get caught up in a cause. That was the sort of guiding principle that was driving us forward.... The challenge is like, what not to include, because it's 40 years of history. It's this vast swirl that's around the characters. You're getting the whole history of the Troubles in the course of the book. And so the question was: 'Okay, what do you cut out?' "