Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Q&A Explosion


The writer of this episode, Albert Kim, had his wife Jennie visiting that day, and she got some amazing shots of the explosion down on Long Beach. This is the second time we detonated a massive fireball in the nation's busiest port. That should not alarm you at all.

I'm going to play catchup on some Q&A on my 12-minute break from writing the season finale. Let's see what odds and ends we have ...

Mike Cane: Still patiently awaiting my fix of Parker pr0n. How many eps are in the can now, btw? And is the debut now DEC instead of OCT?!

You got Parker aplenty coming up, particularly in this episode. Parker fight scene! In the meantime, Parker's character profile is up on TNT. At some point I will bully them into putting these things on YouTube.

If we go by the normal numbering system with the pilot being #101, we are currently shooting #110. Funnily enough, Jonathan Frakes is directing, and Brent Spiner is our guest star. I'm hauling Wheaton down for lunch on set so we can have a mini-reunion. And then I will make them wear the uniforms. And call me "Captain."

#111 was co-written by Chris Downey and Amy Berg. I'm hacking out the two-part season finale now, with Chris probably coming back in in to split the last few scenes. There's only three of us now, so we're spread very ... efficiently over our time writing and being on set.

The December debut has been in the works for a while. When all your other TV shows are ontheir hiatus, there will be shiny new episodes of crime and heist action on TNT.

Stefan: How about a millionaire CEO on the run series? He has a grip with a change of clothes and a wallet full of ATM cards to accounts containing a total of fifty million dollars. In each episode he meets up with people in screwed-up circumstances, from whom he learns valuable life lessons and helps with a carefully applied pile of cash.

The timing of our "vengeance against fat cats" show does seem to be fortuitous. We joked the other day that our promos should just be 15 seconds of Chris Kane beating the shit out of the CEO of Lehman.

The downside, of course, is that many of our cons depend on financial institutions that only exist before an utter financi-pocalypse and societal meltdown. By the time we air in December, we may have to bang out some ADR dubbing.

"Okay, roll the scene."

"... we can transfer the stocks into the fake corporations's name, and then trade them back for title to the land."

"Good, let's redub."

"... we can transfer the [potable water] into the [tribe's compound] and then trade them back for [pointy sticks] to [fight the cannibal homeless]."

emong: Who's the DP on the show?

Dave Connell. Unflappable Aussie.

kevin: Hey Jon, KidCthulhu and I are cable-tv-free. You know if Leverage is going to be available on iTunes?

It will be downloadable, and we are cutting the deal right now. Considering you can now get your television from XBOX marketplace, Amazon unbox, Netflix streaming (which will itself soon be available through XBOX), streaming on the network website and Hulu, and iTunes -- the bosses are hacking out a lot of complicated numbers even as we speak.


richard Jensen: Say, John. Not to rush you or anything. I know you've got hours of TV to get finished but I was curious about your thoughts about the Large Hadron Collider that's suppose to go online this week. Considering that I've heard people screaming about the possibility of micro black holes crushing the world into the size of a proton, I kind of curious to see what your take is. My feeling is if there was any cause for alarm, you'd be the one blowing the horn.

Well, I look at it this way. If we're perceiving the Earth around us at this very moment, then we're looking at a couple options.

a.) Earth was not destroyed.
b.) Based on variations in the experiment, the Earth was destroyed in certain timelines, but we're living in one where it didn't happen -- or were living in one where it happened, but are now only perceiving the timeline where it didn't because when it did, those versions of us died.
c.) The Collider destroyed the Earth, the universe spun down Earthless, and then reformed to spawn our slightly variant Earth, where we then -- following the natural evolution of scientific inquiry -- rebuilt it, but this time it didn't destroy us. This may have already happened nigh-infinite times.


imjohngalt: Oh dear God, how can this disaster that is the Republican VP nomination not wrench you away from your writing table? I would've at least expected a short conversation you've recently had with Tyrone.

Tyrone just keeps pointing and laughing, occasionally choking out a strangled "Fucking white people". The thing I find fascinating is that Sarah Palin was originally popular because people could relate to her as someone they knew from their everyday lives: the bubbly, over-achiever hockey mom who really gets involved in the community. Why she's fallen, hard, is that people realized she was in fact another person they knew from their everyday lives: that crazy mom who turns even the PTA into an insane obsessive power-play and forms weird hostile rivalries she executes through byzantine yet childish plots, seasoned with a dash of Fear of Anything Different.

Back to writing. I'll backtrack through the posts for more questions, but toss up anything you find interesting in the Comments here.

62 comments:

Unknown said...

How many gimmicks have you stolen from old Robert Wagner shows? And have you worked in the line: "Oh we don't want you to spy. We just want you to steal?"

And can you use all that Hollywood clout to get Hulu to put up the rest of It Takes a Thief?

Also, I will fly out to L.A. and work for free on the teaser where Kane goes to work on various real life inspired businessmen.

Anonymous said...

"where Kane goes to work on various real life inspired businessmen"

Why settle for real life inspired?

It isn't too late to add a "CEOs of effected corporations guest star on action show where they are beaten until they pee blood" clause to the bailout bill.

("Lose eyebrows to fiery stunt explosion" is an acceptable alternative to a beating.)

Call your representative today!

Anonymous said...

I love seeing a question from Piratecat. :)
I'd also love to hear how a startrek reunion went, preferably from both you and Wil.

Zed said...

I've been watching Burn Notice, and it brought my attention to something that happens a lot in hour-long drama/action shows - there are no episodes where the main characters lose. No matter how dire things look, you just know that things are going to turn out fine because things _always_ turn out fine.

That was one of the things that made the early Law & Order shows good - every now and then, "evil" would prevail. This meant that in any given show, one never _knew_ how things would turn out.

-thought from while waiting im-patiently for more Leverage.

wcdixon said...

What, if any, contemporary TV series have you (secretly) using as a model in terms of style, tone, smarts, etc., and how high have you (or TNT let you) set the bar?

Unknown said...

One thing I've been looking forward to that has yet to show up is a post about "An American Carol." I assumed we were going to see some sort of patented "treat it like the weak guy gets treated in a shower scene from Oz" smackdown post that you're so good at. If we don't get that, oh well, I'll still watch Leverage but, when I patronize its advertisers, it will be with a distinct lack of zeal.

Joshua James said...

Second the request for AMERICAN CAROL post. Please. Pretty please.

Anonymous said...

Rogers Wrote:


"Well, I look at it this way. If we're perceiving the Earth around us at this very moment, then we're looking at a couple options.

a.) Earth was not destroyed.
b.) Based on variations in the experiment, the Earth was destroyed in certain timelines, but we're living in one where it didn't happen -- or were living in one where it happened, but are now only perceiving the timeline where it didn't because when it did, those versions of us died.
c.) The Collider destroyed the Earth, the universe spun down Earthless, and then reformed to spawn our slightly variant Earth, where we then -- following the natural evolution of scientific inquiry -- rebuilt it, but this time it didn't destroy us. This may have already happened nigh-infinite times."

A few quick responses.
First off, what kind of mushrooms were you on when you came up with option three? And can you get them in Oregon?

Second: Actually, the collider hasn't started colliding anything yet. They had to shut it down due to a malfunction and it's off line until spring. So the rubber hasn't hit the road, so to speak.

Third: By just asking the question, how big of a pussy do I come off as?

And yes, please post your "American Carol" response. As a long time ZAZ fan, I find the existence of this thing deeply troubling.
First, Dennis Miller. Now, David Zucker.
Seriously, if Blake Edwards comes out of retirement to do a pro-neocom farce, I may welcome being crushed to the size of an electron.

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Clockworkjoe said...

This isn't related to the post, but when I read this story, I immediately thought of Leverage. An armored car robber hired unwitting accomplices as decoys over Craigslist. http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_100108WAB_monroe_robber_floating_escape_TP.ce3930c1.html

Inconstant Reader said...

They were promoting LEVERAGE on TBS yesterday during the NL Division Series, which I gotta figure is good, right?

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gwangung said...

Lose eyebrows to fiery stunt explosion" is an acceptable alternative to a beating.

No, it isn't.

Jeff Lipton said...

the bosses are hacking out a lot of complicated numbers even as we speak.

Are you avoiding the "no money for 3 weeks" nonsense that the studios hammered the writers down to? If so, is it because you're "management" as well as writing?

Just curious.

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