00:00So it was more about illustrating the existing events of the book.
00:05It was more about bringing all the answers to the questions that are presented in the book.
00:17One of the great things about the book is it's so cryptic.
00:22Especially all the stories that stem from the interludes.
00:27These are like pieces of a puzzle.
00:30And for me, the challenge was to complete this puzzle and make a compelling story that has a clear direction.
00:40And that direction is explaining the origins of it.
00:46How it became Pennywise.
00:50But ultimately, over the course of the big arc of this series, unveil deeper mysteries, which are related to the
01:03bigger mythology that lies on the other side.
01:06You know that it is a book that talks about the other dimension, the macroverse, but only from the perspective
01:12of humans.
01:13So we don't really fully understand what's on the other side.
01:17So we are aiming for a bigger, bigger reveal of a larger story, a larger mythology, and a larger understanding
01:25of what it is and what it wants.
01:28But like you, we are huge fans of Stephen King, and we've been since our early teens.
01:37And he does that a lot.
01:39He connects, you know, all of his universes.
01:43So it's such a joy for us to, you know, find tissue to connect.
01:48And Dick Calleran is in the book.
01:50I think the areas of the book we were most intrigued by were the ones that begged the greatest number
01:55of questions.
01:56You know, wherever the mystery was is where we sort of targeted.
01:59We feel like we kind of got to play Mike Hanlon detective a little bit in the same way that
02:04Mike in the books is sitting there in his library attic researching the history of Derry, looking for those breadcrumbs,
02:09those little clues to what happened in its past.
02:11That was kind of us.
02:13And the obvious place to start, of course, was the interludes that Mike Hanlon writes within the novel.
02:17And so, you know, we sort of took those little pieces of Derry history and wanted to unveil some of
02:22the mysteries involved.
02:23We wanted to know more about those cycles.
02:25And at the same time, we wanted to tell a story that felt thematically of a piece with why we'd
02:31fallen in love with the book and the films in the first place.
02:34So we talk about this often.
02:35This is a story fundamentally about the weaponization of fear.
02:38It's a story about the loss of innocence.
02:40And so we just thought, how do we how do we weave a story that incorporates those themes and that
02:45begins to unveil some of the answers to these mysteries embedded in the Mike Hanlon interludes?
02:50Well, we absolutely you know, Hanlon is not the only name that fans will recognize, you know, to your question.
02:56Some other names, familiar loser names might come up later on in the season.
03:01I don't want to give anything away.
03:03I don't want to give any spoilers right now.
03:05But, you know, some people, you know, some some familiar characters in this might might actually be, you know, parents
03:13of some of people we we come to know.
03:15I don't know if you know anything about that yet, Eric, but it's I watched the first five episodes.
03:20But you haven't watched you haven't watched everything so that that it comes up even more later.
03:25There's something he's very specifically referring to something you have not seen yet that comes in those final three.
03:32Well, that's an incredible tease.
03:33I love that.
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