As we head into holiday/year-end break, I’m going to extend the vacation to my daily blog post rule. Will give this old diary a rest for a bit, and see if I can focus what remaining energy I have entirely on writing some new things. Before I take my short leave, I'm going to recount three hilarious little moments from the writers’ room just to have to look back on and laugh:
1) Car-Fu — our showrunner bumped on the idea of two “landers” (like low-flying vehicles) battling in the air in any way. He casually said, “nah, that’d be too much car-fu” to which all of us were like, “huh??” He then explained that his friend, who wrote some of the Fast & Furious movies, coined the term. Once you know the context it is kind of self-explanatory — vehicles executing tricky manuevers while battling each other… Too much car-fu!
2) The showrunner recounted a funny scene from a big production meeting he had with the network and the director/EP of the first couple episodes. This director is huge, really huge is all I’ll say. And when it came to the sequence where an android will explode some dude’s head the director said - “You know, I’ve seen a lot of exploding heads in my day. We’re going to do this one differently.” And when he said it, you believed him. The man has seen some exploding heads. So, what will come across on the screen will be unlike anything you’ve seen before, I assure you.
3) Last little lesson - the showrunner is staunch believer of the notion that if you are forced to rename your project then it will die. They tried to get him to rename this show and he refused, and here it is going (he reasons) while multiple shows and films of his apparently died in development after he renamed them. Another show that he actually made, he was forced to rename it right before it started shooting and apparently that killed it for him! Must be an omen…
Alrighty, well, happy holidays!