![]() ![]() I thought, “Well, we’ll have to wait awhile, this guy’s never done television, he’s probably not going to do this. Night Shyamalan, I expected him to take four weeks or something to read it. But I think that you’ll see pretty quickly that we’re not trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes and this isn’t a kind of twist like, you know, “Oh, they’re all dead.”Īctually, when I sent the script to M. He has a backstory that gets revealed over the course of the 10 episodes that you realize what happened to him and, is this something that happened to his head or not? That definitely plays into it, for sure. I feel like Ethan’s head isn’t a great place to be – they brought up the fact that he might have some brain injuries, and suffered with mental illness in the past. People stare at him as he interacts with this crazy nurse and this crazy sheriff - why isn’t anybody talking to him? So it’s really almost like you’re in his head and I felt the same way when I was reading the book. You’re really with Matt Dillion’s character, Ethan, and you’re feeling the experience of coming into this town with him and you’re kind of really in his head. I was so grabbed by the single-player storytelling, I kind of like to call it. I turned those pages as fast as I could and immediately knew that I had to turn it into a show. Well, I got the first book before it was published - maybe two, three months before - from a producer and read the book in one day and completely flipped out. What was it about the book that made you think it would translate to TV? ![]() And I’m flattered by all of those comparisons, but really the inspiration for me was really Crouch’s book. It wasn’t sort of me thinking, “Oh, I could, this could be a little like ‘Twin Peaks’ or ‘Twilight Zone’ or ‘The Prisoner’” - I’ve heard a few different things. I sort of took all the cues, in terms of taking cues from anything other than my own brain, from the book. I think the main inspiration, for me, going into it, was the first book. The first two episodes really reminded me of “Twin Peaks” and “Twilight Zone.” Were those some of your inspirations? ![]()
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