Amazon's Utopia remake won't contain the violence of the original

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The original Channel 4 2013-14 series Utopia was criticized for its use of brutality. Showrunner Gillian Flynn says her version is  going in a different direction. “I’m more ‘less is more’ as far as violence goes,” says Flynn. “I’m the person who loves that moment in Rosemary’s Baby where we’re only seeing part of the conversation whereas the whole audience is trying to look around the corner to see what’s happening, or obviously Jaws. I’m a big believer in that. I don’t want it for a cartoon effect or for shock value. I think we as an audience are past most of that as pure shock value. I want to use violence when it’s effective and appropriate.”