Writers Are The Most Terrible Kleptomaniacs.

Their Argument, And I Think It's A Correct One, Is That They'll Make More Money From The Trades And The Hardcovers If Nobody Messes With The Creative Team.

What I Wanted To Do Was Drown Something Enormous, Like A Star Trek Or Star Wars Kind Of Space Opera-type Thing, But Actually Make It About Someone Who Was Just Married To The Wrong Guy, And That Guy Just Happens To Be This Amazing Dictator, And She Has To Get Her Kids As Far Away As Possible From This Guy. So Something That Could Almost Be A Tv Movie, If You'd Ground It And Set It In Wisconsin Or Something Like That, But To Give It This Enormous Setting.

Many Of Our Leadership Practices Have Gone From Being Tried And True To Being Tired And Tarnished.

When I Was A Kid Growing Up In The '80s, The Bbc Showed Those Old Buster Crabbe Serials Like Flash Gordon And Buck Rogers. So Instead Of Ponderous Sci-fi Or Depressing Sci-fi Or Dystopian Sci-fi And All The Things We're Kind Of Used To, Where It's Always Raining And It's Always Dark, I Thought, "wouldn't It Be Nice To Do Something That Was Just Fun And Absolutely Nonstop?" Like, I Love Writing Action, And This Thing Is That. It's All Action.

It's Been A Very Interesting Exercise As A Writer - Writing A Little Family Group, Like The Incredibles Or The Simpsons Or Something Like That, And Setting It In A Big Star Wars-type Setting. It's Been Really Fun, Definitely Different From The Kind Of Thing I Normally Do.