![]() ![]() He had that memory of doing those scenes with the kids and with Kevin, who plays Jules. He shot all of the stuff with the family upfront, so he always knew who that version of himself was. J Blakeson: We shot all of the America stuff first. Shows are rarely filmed in chronological order anyway, but how did Nathan, in particular, handle jumping back and forth in time? He’s playing a character with different intentions at these different points. So you have all these little moments to increase tension throughout the whole show, which if we just told it in a linear way, it would just be a jump cut to the next bit, rather than having this, "Tell me what's going to happen next!" when we jump back in time or jump forward in time. You can jump to the past, and you can either embellish the present, or you can continue the story of the backstory, and then leave that in a cliffhanger or a jump. It's quite nice to take a story to a certain point, and then leave it on a bit of a cliffhanger. ![]() So then when you show him before, and you see the person he used to be where he's quite violent, and he's breaking the law, I think you kind of feel, "Oh, but I liked him." Hopefully, you ask a lot of questions of, like, "How did he get there? What was he doing?" So you start filling in the blanks in your own head as a viewer.įor a creator, that's really powerful, because I can steer you the wrong way, or I can tease you, or sometimes I can make you guess right, and that feels nice, or guess wrong, and that feels clever, so it gives a lot of ammunition to amp up the mystery. He's a nice guy, he's got a nice thing going on with his fiancé, he's very caring towards his kids, he's very empathetic, and he's got hopes and dreams that you can really identify with. You introduce this guy, and you like him. When I first started imagining the pilot, it was the idea of having as many mysteries as possible for the viewer. ![]() J Blakeson: That's just the way I imagined it, I guess. Why did you feel it was the right creative decision to go that route? They do sort of reference the things that they've done but the jumping around and the story of them being killed and all coming back together, that's something that we invented for the show. They just talk about what they're doing now. They all take a character and talk about that character individually, and they don't really intersect at all. J Blakeson: The book is short stories written by different writers, so each one of them is very different. In the show, you go back and forth between “before” and “after.” Are the time jumps also unique to the series? But it's a very, very free adaptation of the source material. People are paranoid and worried about the past catching up with them, which is one of the things I was really interested in. Obviously, those moral questions are sometimes similar. I made up the version I was most interested in doing and followed the questions and moral questions that I was interested in doing. The basic skeleton is the same, it's just that I took it in a very different way. You do meet them all in their new lives, and they are all are connected by this robbery that they did. I wrote a pilot, and then we took it around, and Disney picked it up, and then we started to do the rest, and we're off to the races.ĭo the show and the book share any characters or stories or are they mostly separate from one another? It's only really the main concept of the book that we were using, and Stephen loved it. So I started spinning ideas very quickly, and I started talking to Stephen about those ideas which were very different from the book. I started thinking about what I would choose and started asking people what they would choose. I started spinning ideas very quickly off this central notion of, "What if a group of people had done a bad thing a couple of years ago? And now they find themselves with a big bag of money, and they can go anywhere in the world and be whoever they want? What would they choose?" He sent me an overview, and just from that two-pager, there was something about it I found really interesting. That book is an anthology of short stories. He sent me that book about six years ago to read. J Blakeson: This all came together because Stephen Garrett, the executive producer of the show, bought the rights to a book called Culprits. Screen Rant: How did you end up getting involved in Culprits? Did someone bring this to you or was this an idea that you already had in mind?
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