For Marne on France 2: Is the series inspired by a real story?

France 2 airs tonight the first two episodes of the British series Pour Marnie.

Starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen, the series tells the heartbreaking story of Nitch and Andrew, a couple faced with an impossible choice.

Indeed, Marnie, their 13-year-old daughter, suffers from muscular dystrophy, an incurable degenerative disease. After another hospitalization for a severe lung infection, Marnie slips into a coma.

With no hope of saving him, the doctors suggested stopping the treatment in his best interest. A hypothesis that would destroy the Lloyd family. Before the decision is made in court, crucial questions about the end of life for children, the limits of therapeutic ruthlessness and respect for patients’ dignity will be raised.

After watching the first episodes of Marni, you might be wondering if the series is based on a true story.

Is the series inspired by a true story?

He and not. Although it was not directly adapted from a true story, the series was inspired by several real events.

To write the series, Jack Thorne, the screenwriter of For Marnie, used various cases of legal battles involving families and doctors who disagreed with the medical decisions of their seriously ill children.

On this topic, he explained to A Interview“I don’t want to tell the story of a real couple, a real family going through this, I think it’s too intrusive“. and added, “We spent a lot of time talking to people who had experienced it, talking to doctors. So many people have influenced this series and their stories are reflected in it, but none of the stories are directly copied because that wouldn’t be right.“.

Although the exact details of the stories that inspired the story have not been unequivocally revealed, the British newspaper The Guardian notes that the series follows the cases of Charlie Gard, an 11-month-old baby, and Archie Battersby, a 12-year-old teenager, whose fates have been debated in British courts.

Holly Dance, mother of Archie Battersby, also highlighted the importance of the series in raising public awareness of the challenges parents face in such situations. “It is important to emphasize this. Because if you don’t experience it, it’s impossible to understand what parents are going through“, he said in the interview BBC .

Marni airs on Monday 24 June and Monday 1 July at 21:10 on France 2.