The billionaire Andy Ronson (Clive Owen) — a technological genius who serves as an antagonist and, ultimately, tragic figure in the FX limited series “A Murder at the End of the World” —may bear a more-than-passing resemblance to certain tycoons of our time. But co-creator, director and co-star Brit Marling, who conceived the show with her longtime collaborator Zal Batmanglij, had an older inspiration in mind.
“If anything, I think we were pretty influenced by reading about Disney, and the idea of Walt Disney as a figure who made real leaps in original thinking,” Marling explains in a conversation with PvNew’s Awards Circuit podcast. “A Murder at the End of the World” is certainly critical of technology, but Marling and Batmanglij also wanted to present a more nuanced narrative than resolving its classic whodunit plot with a single diabolical billionaire.
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