How ‘Origin’ Creator Mika Watkins Sold Her Sci-Fi Series to YouTube Premium
How ‘Origin’ Creator Mika Watkins Sold Her Sci-Fi Series to YouTube Premium https://t.co/HamDiedVS2
- Variety (@Variety) November 13, 2018
-Watkins pitched the idea for “Origin” to Left Bank as a hybrid of “Lost” and “Alien” and considers it a blend of science fiction and horror, centered on “a group of strangers bound for a distant planet [who have] been promised a fresh start on the new planet.”
-"The dialogue in these flashback sequences occurs in the characters’ own languages and is subtitled. It was extremely important for Watkins to get a multinational cast, including Natalia Tena, Tom Felton and Nora Arnezeder as space colonizers, and because YouTube accepted Left Bank’s idea that she should be showrunner, despite “Origin” being her first show, she was able to get her way."
-“The great thing about YouTube is they wanted the show as Mika originally conceived it,” adds Harries. “They didn’t say ‘We like it but can you do it this way and add this?'”
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