“Ramirez was literally an additional director/writer/editor on the movie because he would come up with these sequences for us based on our pitches and our ideas and what was in the script.”
He isn’t kidding when the real creative works happen in pre-vis.
“Not cutting away is probably a bigger decision than cutting away for me.”
Amen.
I don’t think this documentary will go over well with the fans, judging by the penultimate episode reactions last night.
I'm all for the behind-the-scene documentaries of making video games, boy.
“The lesson of Chernobyl is that lying and ignoring facts comes with a deadly cost and we can do it and we can keep doing it. We can keep electing reality television stars to office and we can keep believing what we want to believe and reading things on Facebook and deciding that they’re true, but we are accruing a debt to the truth and that debt comes due one way or the other.”
This interview with the creator Craig Mazin is fascinating on many levels, not just the show itself. First episode alone made Chernobyl my favorite TV show of 2019.
I cannot make sense of its story, but I adore the daring visuals and eccentric characters that defy conventional TV shows.