Foundation Showrunner on these final fluctuations and a study learned from Dark Knight movies (exclusive interview)

I love Demerzel’s story completely, and I know that there are some rights problems at the beginning about how much you can adapt to you, comrades. What is the original approach to the character before you are sorted, how did the fabric began to have more Daneel story and more “robot” stories as possible? How did this plan turned into what we see now?

Good , Approach It did not really change. Originally, Josh Friedman was the one who started developing the show with me. When we were first contacted to do the “basis”, we got a document that showed the characters who had exclusive rights, and it turned out – because later in his career, ASIMOV took “basis” stories and stories “I, Robot” and a kind of combining them in the same universe. They were in separate universes to start, and then he mixed them and had one of the “I, Robot” characters appearing in the subsequent “Foundation” books. So we got a document saying: “These characters, you can use them exclusively. These are characters that appear in both universes, in this case, Fox had books” I, Robot “, and these characters that you cannot use at all, because they are exclusive to books” I, Robot. “

This is how we can reference Demerzel wallpaper as a generalization, but we could not use the personal Daneel and we were unable to name some “I, Robot” characters by name. And I said, “This is good. We will be a bit mixed with some of these signs in the past.” But then what happened was I used to produce a movie for Fox, “The First OMEN”, which is an introduction to “The OMEN”, “ President Fox, Steve Asibel, is a great science fiction fan, specifically from Asimov’s great fans, and was a great admirer of the show.

So we were in an audio mixture of the movie, and he was talking about the show and how much he admired the show, and asked me questions about this topic on the opportunity, and I said, “You know, you can help me here.

So he had a Fox Business Department to do so completely and give us permission to do so. But she was lucky, because I literally I was in a room with Fox’s head, and he was a fan of the show, and sometimes a synchronization in Hollywood works on your interest.

Did this happen before you start working in the third season?

We were writing the third season at that time. We were in the middle of writing it.

right. So you do not have an alternative plan how … because this is a very large aspect of Demerzel and Brother Day story this season.

Yes. This plan was still present, but we were unable to mention Daneel by name. We can be mysterious on this topic, but we could not mention Daneel by name.

With or without the privacy of the names, how it was to explore that this season and not just give us the most complete story of Demerzel, but also specially associated with the DAY story this season, which I think is one of the best things in the season as a whole?

Well, I knew that when we start every season, usually before assembling the book room, write a document or a five or six pages, which is just emptying information from everything I think of the season, about all large and large lines. Over the first three seasons, the final version of the season ended relatively close (). 80 %.

After that, as soon as the book room is held, I would like to say to other writers, “Do you have any ideas about this? Do we have to change this? Do we have to change that?” Sometimes, one of my colleagues will come with a better idea or a better way to do this, so we will change this. But broad strokes, I knew that I wanted the season to be from the story of the emperor, I wanted to be related to the fall of the empire and Demerzel, and I also wanted to be around the redemption a day.

The paradox is that he moves from being a truly selfish person until he is a more selfish person, to sympathy with Demerzel, a personality she had grown to hate, because he felt that, somehow, their guard, and they were all prisoners. But what he realizes is that the emperors themselves, the whole, I was the person who made Ha A prisoner, and therefore imprisoned them all. Therefore, it was not by choosing.

The paradox is that although the day comes to this perception and today he has the opportunity to liberate it by bringing the robot skull and escaping from mechanics, this goes out of each of them, because the dusk kills and kills it so that the action that actually liberates it is a dusk destroying the cloning tanks. Because once cloned tanks and this child died, there is no longer a genetic breed. There is nothing to protect.

So the paradox is that it would have become free there, but the dusk does not believe, as soon as it becomes free, it will necessarily be by his side. So this idea comes to destroy it and Tanks cloning. I love the tragic paradox of changing the day as a character and becomes self -denial and a free Demerzel, but the moment you enjoy freely is the moment you die.