David Wain, created Wet Hot American Summer with Michael Showalter and who directs all eight episodes of the Netflix limited series, recently sat down for an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about the return. The publication quotes him as follows:
On feeling pressure to live up to the film:
"We just focused on telling this story today. It was important to me as a fan of the original to make it a worthy companion piece and just make it as great as we could make it. For my money, it does achieve that in terms of being able to stand on its own. It was important for us not to retread jokes or ideas from the original movie, but instead to get those connectors and references that make it a satisfying companion piece."
On working with a new group of writers:
"What was great was that we had the benefit of having made the film. … In our early career, we had to spend a lot of time saying to people, "It's going to be funny. You just have to trust us," or "Let's see if we can explain to you what we have in mind." In this case, we were able to say, "Here's the movie. Now you know what it is." So there's a very clear template for what the tone and what the sense of humor is. Furthermore, we hired writers who in most cases already were very familiar with the film and able to demonstrate their understanding of it. … That idea expanded to the crew as well which was really cool. Our costume designer and our production designer, these are people who are a little bit younger than we are, and they were big fans of the film before ever meeting us. That's really been the extra juice to lovingly re-create the world."
Read the full interview at The Hollywood Reporter.
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