The opening to Anne, the newest adaptation of the classic book by L. M. Montgomery, is a gorgeous and gilded journey through the seasons. Helmed by Moira Walley-Beckett, Emmy Award-winning writer for Breaking Bad, and produced by Miranda de Pencier, producer of the 2010 film Beginners, the show takes Anne of Green Gables into new territory, bringing a dark sensibility and a sharp eye to the story of an orphaned young woman on Prince Edward Island in 1890.
The book on which the series is based, Anne of Green Gables, is a Canadian treasure. Having sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, it’s also a global sensation, making Prince Edward Island, Canada’s smallest province, a popular tourist destination. Since the 1950s, the story of plucky Anne Shirley has been brought to television more than a dozen times in both movies and series. From 1956’s Anne of Green Gables, a made-for-TV musical, to 1979’s Akage no An (Red-haired Anne), a Japanese animated series, to Road to Avonlea, a live-action series broadcast in Canada from 1990 to 1996, Anne has taken on myriad forms.
Most viewers’ first encounter with the new Anne will be through word of mouth, advertising, and of course, the show’s opening title sequence. Walley-Beckett and de Pencier’s vision for the opening centered on Anne as a force of creativity and a force of nature, communing with the world around her. Having honed her visual storytelling through her work with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, Walley-Beckett was looking for imagery to “roil the imagination.” The resultant opening, crafted by Creative Director Alan Williams and studio Imaginary Forces along with Artist Brad Kunkle, is a lush, glimmering world of silver and gold specks, freckles and fauna and flowing copper hair, all dappled with light.
Telling the story of Anne through her movement in nature, it begins with a cold, wintry landscape and images of a girl, fragmented and lonely. This soon gives way to warm hues and hummingbirds, yellow dresses and shimmering leaves. The end of the sequence is – to borrow the words of Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie – “cast in a golden light”. Newcomer Amybeth McNulty, delicately painted by Kunkle, is Anne, lying in the woods surrounded by leaves, serene, her world beginning to take root. The title appears at last, carved into wood. That’s Anne spelled with an E, if you don’t mind.
A discussion with Anne Showrunner MOIRA WALLEY-BECKETT and Producer MIRANDA DE PENCIER, Creative Director ALAN WILLIAMS of Imaginary Forces, and Artist BRAD KUNKLE.
It must be so exciting to finally get this show out in the open, right?
Miranda: Absolutely! We're still delivering and colour correcting and doing sound mixing on the final episode!
Moira: It's still a work-in-progress, but it's wild that it's out in the world!
Miranda: As Moira and I put Anne out into the world, we are excited to see how much she can be a voice for many people. How much she as a character…
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