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In his follow-up to his acclaimed nbc family drama This is usDan Fogelman Switched Genres – and Mixed Genres, Too – With Hulu’s Paradisa political thriller that incorporate elements of Apocalyptic Science Fiction. It marked fogelman’s first series series for streaming where he already Had with Hulu’s Only Murders in the BuildingWHICH he excutive produces.
IT ALSO Reunited Fogelman and His Emmy-Winning This is us Star Sterling K. Brown, Who Headlines Paradis As Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins. Season 1’s Official Logline Sets Up The Pilot Episode, “Wildcat is Down,” Written by Fogelman and Directed by His Frequent Collaborators Glenn Ficarra and John Requua, Who Also Helmed the This is us pilot: Paradis Taks place in a serene community inhabited by some of the World’s Most Prominent Individuals. But this tranquility explodes we are a shocking the masonry occurs, and a high-stakes investigation unfolds.
In addition to setting up the series, in its finals, the premiere serves the first of Paradis‘s many jaw-dropping twists.
Here is the script for “wildcat is down” with an intro by fogelman. In it, he reveals how a kernel of an idea he got more a decade ago from a loud construction noise his home from a business Meeting with a Powerful Hollywood Type Led to Paradise.
About a year after This is us Ended, I start her family to get off my ass and write something new for television. I MUED ON MULTIPLE Ideas But Kept Returning to A Specific Kernel of A Nottion – A Notion I’d Had Over A Decade Earlier.
The backstory: As a Much Younger Writer I Once Found MySelf in a General Meeting With A Powerful Player in Our Industry – A Person of Great Reach, Resource, and Wealth. Not even chatted with Him (or her, i’ll never tell) I was strucking by the design (and size) of their office, the seeringly infinite reach of their role and power. While that person talked to me, my mindhered and i start wondering if i was in the room with my first billionaire.
I start Musus How Many People Worked to Make That Person’s Life Run Smoothly.
I was Young (er), i was nervous, i don’t remember what we talked about.
But on the Drive Home, A Large Crane at A Nearby Construction site Dropped Something. There was a loud boom. I JUMED, THEN realized this wasn’t a mass casualty Event… SIMPLY A Loud Everyday Construction Noise.
THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THE PERSON I’D JUST MET WITH – THIS PERSON OF SEEMINGLY UNDERTHLY WEALTH AND POWER. I though of all the People who worked to serve that person and i wondered: “if the sh*t ever the fan for real, wouldn’t those People all run to ther people? Waouldn’t they abandon them exployed to serve?
I started the thinking of the interplay of those in power and those who serve. I Started Imagining Someone Whose Job It was to literally take a bullet for a person in immense power – a Secret Service agent to a president. I Started Thinking About Billionaires, and the Strange Power Their Wealth Provides, and I Started Wondering … What If the Loud Boom I’d Had Been Real. And what if People with immics power know it was coming, and had the time to gather their resources and plan for it… so that it is happy, they would be left in the lurch like the rest of us.
I Started Imagining a Pilot with a Late Surprise – One that Revealed that the Presidential Murder Mystery the audience thought they were watching, was really something.
And thatn i Sat on the idea for over a decade.
But Fast Forward TEN OR SO YEARS, I WAS Getting That Post This is us Writing itch, and i returned to idea. I Wrote the Screenplay First, Refususing to AcknowLedge to MySelf That I Was Clearly Writing The Lead Agent for Sterling K. Brown, and Refususing to It As a Tv Series UNTIL I SAT MY PRODUCING JESS ROSENDTHAL AND MYO FRIENDS Writer/Producers) John Hoberg and Scott Weinger to Chat with Experts and Figure Out What Exactly This Series Was Beyond The Pilot.
Once i had that, we shared it with our supportive partners at 20th, dissney, and hilu – and then my old pals sterling K. Brown, John Requa, Glenn Ficarra, and Steve beers – and we were off to the races… Born out of a Meeting with a rich guy (or gal) and one hell of a loud boom.
Dan Fogelman
Read the script below.
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