Set 40 Years In The Past, 'Guerrilla' Speaks Strongly To Today
Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley's new series is set in the U.K. during the 1970s, when immigrants of color from former colonies were coming there for work, but finding little opportunity.
A few years ago, the American screenwriter John Ridley was working in Britain. He learned a bit of history that felt at once new and familiar — of a time in the 1970s when Britain struggled with that American-sounding question: Who are we?
It involved "issues of immigration, and who was really British and who belonged in this country," Ridley says. "All of those things
