Makers of Adolescence option rights for new TV adaptation of nuclear disaster classic Threads
The original 1984 television film follows two families in Sheffield after the Soviet Union drops a nuclear bomb on the city. The rule of law quickly deteriorates, and survivors find themselves at the mercy of looters, traffic wardens armed with rifles and their own, rapidly deteriorating health.
In a flashforward some years later, the decimated population of Britain is seen trying to maintain a primitive society whose children can barely use language.