Hi, guys.
I'll begin with you, Chris,
I must say I was watching the show
yesterday, which I loved and my wife came in
and asked what I was watching, and I described the premise.
And she went, Oh, that's a really good idea.
And that is the reaction, isn't it?
It's one of those premises for a show people go, Oh, that sounds really good.
Remember how you guys first kind of came out of it?
And did you feel pretty quickly
that you were sitting on something and had quite a lot of potential?
Yeah, what's funny about is that it came up with it, you know,
like eleven or twelve years ago while we were working on Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs, and it seemed like it would be a fun way
to tell a murder mystery is, you know, through all these different
characters, eyes and each one with their own perspective.
And that seemed
like something I hadn't seen before.
And so we wrote the script and
we got really busy with making
all these other things.
And then finally came back around to it.
But we always came back to it because we knew that there was something
really inherently interesting about it.
And it's something you ain't seen before.
And we're always trying to find new ways of telling stories and
and bring audiences new things.
And so it was really something that we never gave up on
because it seemed like it had something special to it.
Yeah. And for me, I was reading originally,
it was kind of the concept was there might be a pitched as a film.
I mean, there's ways there's so much ground to go over here.
What stage did it become apparent actually, to tell this story
had to be over so multiple different parts?
Right?
Once we saw that the script was 400 pages,
you know, I mean, the thing about it is it it,
it just gives you more chances to realize each character more fully.
And I think in a show that really is about
looking at people as closely as you can
and to get past like your initial
idea or stereotype about who they might be or how you know what they're about,
the series gives you a chance to like, literally spend an entire episode
with each person and understand who they really are.
So we just thought it really served the material the best.
Yeah, I mean, because I mean, I loved each episode, obviously has a slightly
altered genre style and visual experience to match the storytellers personality
I would create some has also come to
I mean, did it feel like you were creating lots of separate shows?
Because I guess
then that there was the fear of a show that there could be
a sense of repetitiveness, but that's never
that's never the case when every episode is so different.
And was that one style that you most enjoyed directing it?
Oh man.
Well, it was a really ambitious thing
to do, and each episode had to be its own movie
and had a whole different production challenges.
You know, every episode of its own, you know, camera and lighting
and different, slightly different costumes in each episode.
The music for each one was its own unique
thing and and each one had its own challenges of doing an action movie.
one you go like playing out the car chase in a fistfight or in a musical
where you have to compose all these songs and then have a core choreography.
Every single one of them was a challenge, and but they were all so fun to do.
I mean, the animation one, especially with its own pipeline
completely separate from anything else and that's, you know, always fun for us.
You know,
getting to work with our friends on the
animation side of production as well.
And so that was a really a really fun one to do.
And I think probably the hardest one was the musical one, but
also was the most fun to do because you know, you're doing a big crazy
dance number and you're like, look around going like, what is happening today?
But but it's a lot of fun and just very, very quickly.
You mentioned animation.
I just had to ask a quick question about Spider-Verse.
Part two because the first movie was so amazing.
Obviously, the most recent Spider-Man opened up the whole multiverse concept.
Is there a way for Miles
to meet Peter, and would that have to be live-action.
Do you think or could
there be a Who framed Roger Rabbit? style thing on day, in the future
Well, all things are possible in the multiverse,
but I think they were really psyched for those guys and Amy Pascal.
You know, we make spider-verse with
and it's just another reminder of the power of that character
around the world that sort of,
you know, that anyone can wear the mask.
And I'm just I'm glad that we were right.
That multiverse stuff is cool.
Thank you so much for your time best-loved release of the show.
Thanks.