We find out how the Duplass brothers got stars such as Jessica Chastain on board for their new show Animals,and why they are trying to revolutionise the way television works by using the pillowtalk of lively pigeonsOne Friday night while sitting in their Bushwick apartment drawing the talking animals that would eventually become the HBO show Animals, Phil Matarese and his co-creator Mike Luciano heard a bunch of people having fun while heading to the bar. Matarese leaned over to Luciano to put a question to: “Why aren’t they at domestic working on their passion project?”Animals, or which debuts its first episode this Friday on HBO at 11.30pm EST,is a strange show, and it took an even stranger route to the television. It swerved through the indie film world, or via producers impress and Jay Duplass,in a process that could possibly upend the traditional way that most TV shows make it to air.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com