When Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg asked Simon Ratsiopa if he was interested in creating Spinoff Children, Accidentally lost. Deadlines were tight, with fewer than eight episodes a year to produce, but Ratsiopa was up for the challenge.
The boys represent: The Devil It’s an Amazon Prime animated anthology series that’s evolving around the world. ChildrenThe “John and Sun-Hee” episode created for the Emmy review is written and directed by Andy Samberg. More serious than any other, this episode follows John (Randall Duke Kim), a Woot janitor who steals a vial of Compound V in hopes of saving his dying wife Sun-hee (Yun Yuh-jung).
Each episode has a different writer, director, and animation style to fit the story, which Rasiopa said didn’t seem like a smart choice at the time. However, he thinks “Johnny and Sun-hee” wouldn’t have been such a strong story if they hadn’t made that decision.
Deadline: Were there different animation styles for the series for each episode?
Simone Rasiopa: It was a conversation we had before. We knew we had 10 months to do it, so it would have been a lot easier if we’d all used one animation style, because at that point all it took was an art director. Shape the style and then you have a lot to reuse. You can use the same items over and over again, so most of the series work, right? It would have been a smart move, but because we had these scripts working with all these different creators and the stories were so different in terms of tone, we realized that if we made all these episodes in one style, we wouldn’t do it to them. how can we.
So we decided to address it somehow in the future. We were putting our future in difficulty mainly because we thought: “It will be a big problem. When everything returns to normal in a few months, we will fight over this issue, but let’s make a decision now. “When you get the scripts from Justin Rowland and do the Looney Tunes style that we wanted to do with Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg, then we do a very serious episode about cancer and lose to Andy Samdberg … they can’t really be the same style. I need to use the strengths of the animation and do different styles. I think it was the right decision, even if it meant many extra hours for all the participants, myself included.
Deadline: Of the eight episodes, why did you choose “John and Sun-Hee” to talk about Emmy?
proportion: One of the nice things about seeing people respond to TV shows and reviews, both critically and from viewers, is that everyone seems to have had a different episode as a favorite … and everyone seems to have had a different episode too. . different episode, like the least loved one. So it’s gone somehow and I feel like it’s really a confirmation of the show that every episode has big fans and every episode some people can’t stand it. As I said, one of the episodes that I feel was the best and came out on the side of what I didn’t expect when we started working on it was “Johnny and Sun-hi”.
Director Steve Aen was the one who picked it up and made it his own. He has had personal experiences with some of the themes, not for himself, but in his family, who told him about this work. It seemed to me that this was a job that everyone could relate to in a way that might be less relevant to some of the other episodes. I also find it wonderful. I mean, again, I’d be happy to submit all of our episodes for review, but then they’d all be competing against each other and that would be crazy. So we had to make some decisions.
Deadline: Was this episode always about Korean immigrants?
proportion: So this is crazy, it wasn’t. When I started working on the script with Andy Samberg, he came up with the idea for the episode, let’s say, “This is a great idea.” It was so different from all the other ideas we were working on at the time. It’s a mature story of loss and life and how part of life goes and how it goes … and you do it in 11 minutes. But at the time we didn’t have any ethnicity for any of the characters, we just knew they were an elderly couple going through this life change. When Steve walked in, he said, “I love this episode, it talks to me. “Something similar happened to my beloved, but he was happy to be Korean.” And of course Andy is not Korean, I’m not Korean, our supervisor Giancarlo [Volpe] It wasn’t even Korean … but we said “We support this 100 percent”. So our job at the time was just to support Steve. We found a Korean animation studio, we hired two great Korean main actors, Randall Duke Kim and Yoon Yuh-jung, and we found a fantastic Korean composer, Hesu Weidman, who created a party that cries all the time. That’s how he got Korean and he just put it on. But he built that aspect into the script, so I repeat it at one point, and I was surprised and delighted by how much it changed, it transformed and eventually became something better, something you always hope for. Write or produce television.
Source: Deadline
