Want more Rolling Stone? But I’m glad that we seem to be saying something that’s getting under certain people’s skin.”, “To be fair,” Fuller notes, “there is a religious quality to what this show is about, because all it takes is someone to believe, and you’re in the game.”, “You can’t really do American Gods without asking yourself what it is that you worship versus what it is that you think you worship,” Green adds. His bosses’ lack of interest in such an approach is one of the reasons Fuller left the project early on, but they kept the setting and characters he’d helped develop, which left Discovery stranded at a point in the franchise’s timeline where the creative team was very limited by what they can do. “We met in a hotel lobby,” Gaiman recalls, “and he said, ‘I’m such a fan of the novel … I have no idea how I’d make it into a TV series but I do know that I’d want to get all of the stuff I love in there.’ And I thought, he’s our man. He’d heard this rap before – an on-again, off-again attempt to adapt the novel for HBO had ended up going nowhere – but this felt like the company were willing to push the envelope to make this happen; besides, longform, small-screen storytelling that could detour into previously unknown territories was beginning to hits its stride. They don’t connect with the old material in any meaningful way so much as they strain to re-create it exactly as it was. Fuller revealed this news during a recent interview with Rolling Stone.. Stewart returning to the role would be reason enough to watch, but this is an actual show, rather than a greatest-hits collection. “I love David Tennant,” said Fuller. On the other hand, considering that the source material was written by an immigrant, they’re happy to see the show sparking discussion in addition to wowing fans. He found it a strange, wonderful, fascinating place, and eventually wrote a book about the various pasts, presents and futures this land contained. Want more Rolling Stone? (*) “All Good Things,” the Next Generation series finale, also has sequences where Picard is an old man on the vineyard. Bryan Fuller, Writer: Star Trek: Discovery. Picard here is more than a decade older than Stewart. In This Article: Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Stewart’s played frail old men before (including in Logan, to which Picard bears a more than passing resemblance), so the physicality he brings to the job isn’t surprising. So while lots of Fuller and Green’s personal “stuff [we] love” survives the trip from page to screen – the Salim and the Jinn interlude is present in all its homoerotic glory, as is the book’s fire-eyed buffalo oracle – they have also played around with the timelines and extended the presence of some characters to flesh the show out. (*) How would he feel about being away from Starfleet? Showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, ... More from Rolling Stone 'This Is Disastrous': How the Vinyl Industry Is Responding to the Apollo Masters … What would he be doing? Starz, Bryan Fuller Board Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’ The premium cable network has joined the FremantleMedia project with a script-to-series commitment. I think he’s an orange shit stain on the used underwear of humanity. I’ve seen the first three episodes. We’re All Alive!’, Clinton Heylin Wrote Eight Bob Dylan Books. “‘Justice or revenge! Even when you factor in the state of 24th-century medical technology, this is not a Picard who’s likely to be flexing his biceps while he hangs from a cable in battle with the Borg Queen. The African folk hero Anansi is no longer an old man but a dapper Orlando Jones, initially seen inspiring a slave-ship rebellion. But there’s something genuinely thrilling in the way we see Picard come back to life as best he can as the plot unfolds. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. (*) This proved to be a mistake resulting from the show’s convoluted development process. Self professed Star Trek geek who watched and loved the Trek series "Deep Space Nine" and set out to write for them. Sir Patrick Stewart is back as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new CBS All Access spin-off, and resistance is futile. This is a man with no ship, no crew (other than a pair of wonderfully snarky Romulan servants, played by Orla Brady and Jamie McShane), no purpose. The fact that the series presents this mind-blowing moment in its very first episode tells you that the people behind this weird, wild, warped fantasy-cum-road-movie TV hybrid are not kidding around. What’s surprising is how the show seems to have taken on extraordinary (and unintentional) political resonance in regards to battles over immigration, faith and the melting-pot fabric of our nation. Picard acknowledges certain key details from that episode, but because Data was alive in its future, then killed off in the Star Trek: Nemesis film, the new show’s not entirely beholden to how the old one ended. Then, while Fuller was filming in Toronto, he received an unexpected guest. Working with Michael Green (the suddenly-hot scribe behind “Logan” and “Blade Runner 2049”), Fuller has grafted Gaiman’s vision with his own sublimely strange sense of visual composition, honed on “Hannibal,” one of the best programs of the ‘10s. '”, He chuckles, then stares at the recorder in front of him. Hannibal Season 4 would be Inception meets Angel Heart according to the show’s creator, Bryan Fuller, and that sounds perfect to us. The second season ended with the ship traveling into the future for good — not quite Fuller’s original idea, but close enough. Ok. That becomes the filter for everything: There was an interview I did recently where someone asked me if the book meant something differently in a post-Trump world. As the title suggests, it brings back Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc, now a 92-year-old Starfleet retiree living on the family vineyard in France. What strikes me as funny, however, is when people think we put the show out right now just to piss people off. In conversation with Rolling Stone, Fuller opened up about the difficult process of casting Mikkelsen as the insidious and methodical Lecter, and reflected on why the Doctor Strange and Death Stranding actor always held the advantage over his alternate choice, Doctor Who’s David Tennant. By the time this older Picard actually says “Engage” in a scene, it is not in any way pandering, but something Star Trek: Picard and its great star have entirely earned. In 2017, Fuller told Rolling Stone that season four of Hannibal would be “Inception meets Angel Heart.” So…freakishly mind-bending and horrific? Fans of Hannibal, the show, have been pleading for a Season 4 for what seems like years.It’s probably because it has been years since Hannibal Season 3 was released. “The very first stop on my book tour for American Gods, which was on June 19th, 2001, was at the Borders at the World Trade Center,” Gaiman says. Sign up for our newsletter. At the time, Star Trek had an open script submission policy and Fuller contributed a spec, leading to a pitching opportunity. This was the simple command that Captain Jean-Luc Picard uttered so often throughout the seven-season run of Star Trek: The Next Generation — the final word before the starship Enterprise headed off on a new adventure. Just as importantly, there is the leading man. I said it did, and that was it. Stewart is compelling enough to justify a relatively leisurely pace in the early going. One of them goes something like this. Then the headline was ‘American Gods Author Slams Trump! Then He Realized He Needed to Start All Over, ‘Hacks’: Jean Smart Makes ’Em Laugh in Stand-Up Dramedy, ‘The Underground Railroad’: Barry Jenkins’ Gorgeous Journey Into American Darkness. According to a 2020 report (via Rolling Stone), Tennant's likability as a performer ironically played out a role in NBC's decision.Per Fuller: Many people loved it, including a man who’d made an eye-popping, groundbreaking TV show about a serial killer and a screenwriter who penned scripts about the death of a superhero and the rebirth of a replicant hunter. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/star-trek-picard-cbs-review-938164 And the author loves it.”, “Trying to explain the show in a single logline is impossible. He is haunted by dreams of his late, great, android-with-a-heart operations officer Commander Data (Brent Spiner), which tie into the new adventure the series sends him on. What might inspire him to go off on one more mission? The duo decided to adapt this novel into a series, even though a legion of folks thought it was impossible. have. ’Star Trek: Discovery’: New Klingon Design Influenced by H.R. As for people who say they’re boycotting the show – what you’re doing is what us old-fashioned types call ‘not watching it.’ Which is fine. Early episodes are sprinkled with nods to Next Generation and several Star Trek films (even one of the Chris Pine movies, which largely take place in an alternate timeline), and we are promised eventual appearances by some other familiar faces from the Eighties and Nineties. 'Spiral': Chris Rock's 'Saw' Movie Is Less Torture-Porn, More Sheer Torture, “Trying to explain the show in a single logline is impossible. The creators of American Gods have many stories to tell you. And that is why someone stumbling across Starz last night would have seen a woman suck a grown man completely into her vagina. Neil Gaiman had been talking to folks at FremantleMedia, who were interested in developing his book as a TV series. “But essentially, the end goal was always to do justice to the book. Fuller tells Rolling Stone: “ I love David Tennant. Thank Gods for Bryan Fuller. I mean, trying to explain the show in a single logline is impossible. But it all feels cohesive and confident in a way that Discovery, even in its good moments, never quite has. But Bryan [Fuller] came up with ‘Clash of the Titans by way of The Grifters.‘ And that’s as good a way to describe it as any.”–Showrunner Michael Green. They’re brand management more than they are storytelling — unapologetic bids for attention in an overcrowded TV landscape, little more. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Bryan Fuller did spoke a lot about the idea of Hannibal Season 4, what he would like to show in the upcoming series. 'American Gods' author Neil Gaiman and showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green on bringing the "unfilmable" novel to TV – and that WTF love scene. https://screenrant.com/hannibal-season-1-bryan-fuller-vision-compromised-nbc There are a lot of new characters to introduce, and new circumstances for Picard, the Federation, and the Romulans. © Copyright 2021 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. 2013-2015 HANNIBAL From writer and producer Bryan Fuller Rolling Stone Review: In this series, that thrillingly self-destructive impulse is invited — and then rewarded a hundredfold with some of the most gorgeous visuals of murder and cooking you’ve ever seen. Bryan Fuller Views ‘Hannibal’ Streaming on Netflix as the Ticket to Getting Season 4 Made Bryan Fuller and his cast are ready to make "Hannibal" Season 4. But they had been meeting up for long sushi lunches regularly to talk shop, and were on the lookout for something they could collaborate on. We meet fellow writers who say, ‘Oh, I love mythology!’ And I think, ‘You’re fucking liars, because if you read it in the original 1920s stuffy translation instead of something someone told you, you’d know those books were impenetrable!’, “What we kept saying we wanted to do,” he continues, “was to bring that spirit over. The author starting talking to networks and settled on Starz; now it was just a matter of finding someone who had the right sensibility. “… And total infidelity,” Fuller finishes, laughing. 'American Gods': From Cult Novel to Peak ... - Rolling Stone The gods of TV programming, who were also pleased, favored these gentlemen with a Sunday evening timeslot on a premium-cable channel, the highest blessing they could bestow. Now they just need a home to do it at. “It’s a nice mix of fidelity …” Green says. Now along comes Star Trek: Picard, which on paper leans even more heavily on Trek nostalgia than Discovery ever has. What’s great about American Gods is the way Neil made all these aspects of mythology feel alive, current, vital. But I didn’t say that. “For most producers, that would have been the first thing they cut if they were making this, but they’d be missing what makes the book work,” Green says, to which Fuller, sitting next to him, gleefully adds, “Yeah, fuck those assholes!” The two showrunners, who first worked together on the NBC show Heroes back in 2006, had been busy with their own projects – Fuller was deep into his baroque re-imagining of Thomas Harris’ cannibal gourmet Hannibal, and Green was working on scripts for the revisionist X-Men blockbuster Logan, the upcoming Blade Runner reboot and an all-star take on Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Someone told me, ‘You and The Handmaid’s Tale, your shows are the Resistance!’ Really? But engage is also what so many recent TV revivals fail to do. “There was a lot of WWBD – ‘What Would Bubo Do?’ – on set,” Green confesses, referring to Clash‘s mechanical owl. Anyone familiar with Fuller and Green’s previous work won’t be surprised by the show’s sumptuous visual sense – there will be blood, and it will be filmed spurting and cascading in slow-motion – or the occasional feeling that you may have been dosed while watching, say, literally faceless henchmen beat up our hero or Gillian Anderson appearing as David Bowie. But Bryan came up with ‘Clash of the Titans by way of The Grifters.‘ And that’s as good a way to describe it as any.”. Discovery was originally the brainchild of Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller, and reports suggest he wanted it to be a seasonal anthology series like Fargo and American Horror Story, each season set in a different Trek era with a different cast. More mission is available now on CBS All Access spin-off, and the Romulans character,,... 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