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CITAZIONEONCE UPON A TIME - "The Thing You Love Most" - Regina does everything in her power to force Emma out of Storybrooke and out of her and Henry's lives forever. Meanwhile, the chilling circumstances of how the Evil Queen released the curse upon the fairytale world is revealed, on "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
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Once Upon A Producer: Interview With Steve Pearlman Of Once Upon A Time
Earlier this month, we along with several other media outlets had the opportunity to visit the sets of ABC's upcoming series, Once Upon A Time, at the show's filming location in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The show, which premieres on Sunday, October 23, transports the audience into a fairy tale world that is soon cursed, where its inhabitants now reside in the "real world" in a town called Storybrooke. (A fuller description of the series can be found here). The talented cast includes Jennifer Morrison (House), Lana Parrilla (LOST), Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), and Robert Carlyle (Stargate Universe) and the show comes from two of the writers of LOST, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.
KSiteTV participated in roundtable/group interviews with several members of the Once cast as well as executive producer Steve Pearlman. We'll be rolling these interviews out over the coming week as we lead into October 23 and the series premiere.
Today's posting is a Q&A with executive producer Steve Pearlman. If the name's familar, it could be because we interviewed him last year when he had a similar role with ABCs V. From Visitors to fairy tales... it seems he does well with high-concept projects. We're not posting everything he had to say -- after all, there were four other media outlets in our roundtable -- but some highlights are found below.
Please do not reproduce this interview onto other websites. Instead, just place a link to KSiteTV! Questions to Mr. Pearlman are posted in bold; his answers are not.
How long will it take for us to learn more about the curse that the Evil Queen has put on everyone?
We, the audience, will know more about the curse at the end of the first episode. That was one of the things that we came away from the pilot, and there were a number of questions about who in Storybrooke knows about the curse. That's something that we answer in the first episode.
One of the questions that kept coming up on V [was that] everyone was asking "When are people going to find out about this? And what's their story?" And we didn't really answer the story about the Visitors until the second season, even, and I think the audience gets impatient with that. So in Once, in the first episode, we very clearly lay out how the curse came about, and who knows about the curse in the modern day world.
What is the timeline as far as how much time passes in each episode?
There's no set rule for that. We did a timeline for ourselves, where we're shooting Episode 8 and 9 right now, and I think we did a timeline that said that we're about 34 days from when Emma arrived in Storybrooke. And there's no real significance to that.
Some episodes take place in one day; some episodes take place over the course of a couple days. Episode 7 brings us up to the Christmas hiatus, and then we're off the air for three weeks or something like that, and I think we do a two week jump there, and we pick up the story two weeks later. It's kind of a natural place to do that, anyway. That's the biggest jump we have in the present day story. The fairy tale story kind of jumps all over the place. There's no real timeline for that.
Is there going to be any kind of cliffhanger left at the end of Episode 7 to make people want to come back a few weeks later?
Yeah, I think so. [grins] Maybe even a couple.
Can you talk about Rumplestiltskin and his Storybrooke alter ego of Mr. Gold?
The thing about Rumple and Mr. Gold in Storybrooke, that we've tried very hard [to do], is to keep him very mysterious, to the point where in the pilot when Mr. Gold shows up, we don't really give him an entrance. He's almost just kind of there. You turn around and there he is. We kind of play that with him, where he is kind of the Big Bad. Regina is bad, and she's a great villain, but there's something almost scarier about Rumple because we don't know that much about him. He's unpredictable. He seems to know a lot more than he lets on.
We do have an episode that we're actually shooting right now, which is a big Rumplestiltskin backstory episode, where you get to see some of the texture that made him who he is. In the pilot, Rumplestiltskin is in the dungeon, and because we're jumping around time in Fairy Tale land, and flashing back to different parts of the fairy tale story, we'll see Rumplestiltskin out of the dungeon, because it would have been the time before he was imprisoned.
The young boy, Henry (Jared Gilmore), has a book that informs him of the fairy tale world. Is there something magical about Henry himself?
He was given the book, and he was a kid that just needed something, and this is the thing that he has grasped on to. I think there is something - certainly we play it in the pilot, and it's something that we've captured a little bit in some of the episodes... there is a little bit of a magical quality to Henry. We don't want to play him as a precocious kid, because I think everybody kind of hates that in television, but I think there's an innocence to him, and a wise-beyond-his-years quality to him.
Does the Mayor (Regina, his adopted mother, known in the Fairy Tale world as the Evil Queen) know who Henry really is? Will we see the background to her adoption of him?
We will touch on that in some episodes, yes, as to how she adopted him.
The young boy, Henry (Jared Gilmore), has a book that informs him of the fairy tale world. Is there something magical about Henry himself?
He was given the book, and he was a kid that just needed something, and this is the thing that he has grasped on to. I think there is something - certainly we play it in the pilot, and it's something that we've captured a little bit in some of the episodes... there is a little bit of a magical quality to Henry. We don't want to play him as a precocious kid, because I think everybody kind of hates that in television, but I think there's an innocence to him, and a wise-beyond-his-years quality to him.
Does the Mayor (Regina, his adopted mother, known in the Fairy Tale world as the Evil Queen) know who Henry really is? Will we see the background to her adoption of him?
We will touch on that in some episodes, yes, as to how she adopted him.
One of the early episodes of the series involves Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. Will we be seeing any more characters from the Sleeping Beauty mythology, and will she have any conflict with the Evil Queen?
I don't know, and yes. In that order.
Maleficent is in our first episode after the pilot. Kristen Bauer plays the lovely Maleficent, and I think that you get a very good sense that there's a history between the two. They're kind of frienemies. Maleficent has something that the Queen wants, and what length will she go to with her dear old friend to get that?
I think where we leave that story in the first episode, there's absolutely an opportunity to have Maleficent come back, and see what trouble she might stir up.
Do we also see Maleficent's Storybrooke alter ego?
We have not, yet.
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Alan Sepinwall and Dan Fielberg review Once Upon a Time - they're not into it much but time will tell - they like Jennifer Morrison in OAUT though - listen to it here
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TV's new magic kingdom: Once Upon a Time casts an enchanting spel
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News October 17, 2011
Once Upon a Time premieres Sunday, Oct. 23 on CTV at 7 ET/PT; ABC at 8 ET/PT.
If they never truly believed that fairy-tale characters — and real-world scriptwriters — could live happily ever after, Once Upon a Time might never have happened.
It took Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz eight years to bring Once Upon a Time to life, by their own estimation. Part fairy-tale fantasy, part present-day mystery, the filmed-in-Vancouver story of a boy searching for his birth parents in a small, eerie town was a tricky high-wire walk.
The town's residents are unknowingly characters from classic fairy tales, trapped in a centuries-old curse. The story jumps back and forth between a fairy-tale kingdom of noble princes, sleeping beauties and an evil queen, and the present-day setting of a dark, drizzly New England town where everyone, it seems, is hiding something.
Kitsis and Horowitz wanted their tale to brim with wonder and magic, yet be underscored by a streak of darkness and malevolent threat. They wanted to create a story that would both appeal to a modern-day audience raised on realistic, present-day mysteries, yet be old enough to yearn for the innocent fairy tales of childhood.
"The idea came to us more than eight years ago," Horowitz said. "We were asking ourselves: Why are we writers? What are the kinds of stories we wanted to tell? Fairy tales are these formative kinds of stories we all grow up with. We only know how to tell the kinds of stories we know how to tell."
In Once Upon a Time, they believe they have finally found their Sleeping Beauty. Once Upon a Time premieres Sunday, Oct. 23 on a wing and a prayer. It's one of the most distinctive and unusual network TV dramas since critically acclaimed — but short-lived — efforts like Pushing Daisies, and few industry insiders give it much of a chance in a network-TV setting populated largely by cop shows, sitcoms and reality series.
"We're going to do our level best to tell these stories, and hope that people respond," Horowitz said. "We're going to try and go as far as we can."
Once Upon a Time's eclectic cast of characters includes House's Jennifer Morrison as a young woman who's closed herself off from emotion ever since she was abandoned as a baby. She gets a rude shock one day when a 10-year-old boy, played by Mad Men's Jared Gilmore, turns up at her door, claiming to be the son she gave up for adoption years earlier.
The boy believes his newly found birth mother is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. Concerned for his emotional and mental stability, she returns him to the town where his adoptive parents raised him, even though he doesn't want to go back. He's convinced he's trapped in the clutches of the Evil Queen, who's simply using him to find and eventually destroy Snow White.
Lana Parrilla plays the dual role of the Evil Queen and the town mayor of Storybrooke; Josh Dallas plays Prince Charming; Ginnifer Goodwin plays the dual role of Snow White and the benevolent Mary Margaret; and Robert Carlyle plays the dual role of Rumpelstiltskin and the enigmatic "Mr. Gold."
"We will go back and forth between these worlds every week," Horowitz promised. "Whether the characters have any inkling they are not of this world is a good question, and one that will be pretty much answered in the second episode.
"One of the reasons we want to go back and forth between the worlds is so that we can start the stories at any point we want to, and tell any part of them we want to, and orient the audience that way. If you don't know the story of Rumpelstiltskin, or you don't know the story of Jiminy Cricket, hopefully, it won't matter, because we're coming in from a different place. If we're doing our job right, you should be able to figure out what's going on."
A more open question — and one Horowitz promises will be answered eventually — is whether the characters in the town of Storybrooke age over time. That's an aspect of the curse the story's characters don't realize, even though the audience does.
To remind viewers of the stakes involved, each episode will end with a clock ticking forward.
"Everything is ticking forward," Horowitz said. "And all bets are off."
Once Upon a Time's fairy-tale characters are inspired from past Disney films. Disney is the producing studio, with ABC, and so there are no rights-clearance issues. Different characters from different fairy tales will appear together, Kitsis added.
"We love the mishmash," he said. "We just like the idea of Jiminy Cricket talking to Prince Charming, and Geppetto and Grumpy all at a war-room council. For us, that's part of the fun of the show — bringing in all these characters from all these different stories."
The eye-filling premiere episode, handsomely mounted and pored over with loving care and attention to detail, will not be a one-off, Kitsis promised.
"What's great is that the technology has changed so much. We always felt we couldn't show this pilot and then have it be this cheap show afterwards where, every so often, we show this one scene that looks cool. Our goal is to maintain the production value throughout."
Kitsis and Horowitz come by their fairy-tale leanings honestly: They were writers and co-producers on the series Lost for six seasons, and wrote more than 20 episodes. Lost executive-producer Damon Lindelof was an early consultant on Once Upon a Time; Kitsis and Horowitz say they still connect with Lindelof frequently, as a creative sounding board.
"We make several visual references to Lost in the pilot," Horowitz said. "We can't help ourselves."
Lindelof remains involved as a spiritual adviser, Kitsis added.
"His name is not in the show, but he's in the DNA. He's been like a godfather. He's helping us realize our vision of the show, but he very much wants it to be our show. So he helps when he can. And sometimes he gives us tough love."
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'Once Upon A Time' Preview: Fairy Tales Meet Reality
ABC fantasy series from 'Lost' writers/producers follows the lives of storybook characters forced to live in the real world.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
The characters in the fairy tales you grew up listening to are people too. That's a big part of the story behind ABC's upcoming fantasy series "Once Upon a Time." From the minds of former "Lost" writers and producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, "Once Upon a Time" follows the lives of a number of storybook characters who find themselves trapped in the real world after a curse is placed on them.
Jennifer Morrison ("Warrior") stars as Emma Swan, the woman tasked with saving the fairy-tale world and bringing back the happy endings. Morrison says that there's much more to the series than the familiar faces, like Snow White, and that the show is about something bigger and much more relatable.
"It's relationship driven. There is this sort of underlying universal thing," Morrison said. "We're in a time in our lives where the economy's kind of tough and jobs are tough, a lot of struggles people are facing. In a sense, our show really represents that in the curse that is on the characters and the hope that there is a way out, that you can band together and find a way out."
Taking such a fantastical premise and making it about something real is a trick Horowitz and Kitsis say they learned from their time working on another sweeping fantasy epic, "Lost." The creators cite the character-driven drama of "Lost" and that show's executive producers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, for giving them the direction and recipe for a successful outlandish drama series.
"I think that the important thing that Damon and Carlton always told us was that it's about character first, although the fairy tale is fun, and Storybrooke's fun," Kitsis says. "Like, oh my god, that's Grumpy in a scene with Little Red Riding Hood. If you don't care about the characters and you don't care about their struggles, for us it's important that they're not just animated characters."
For any TV show with even the most tenuous connections to "Lost," there will be questions of whether there is an overall arch already planned. Horowitz and Kitsis say they know where they want to take it but are waiting to see how viewers react first. "You can really only take those big picture ideas and then look at what's right in front of you and try to tell the best story you can, and we'll see what the audience says," Horowitz explained.
To clarify further, Kitsis offered up an analogy. "It's kind of like we're on a road trip. We know we want to get to New York eventually, but if we see a large potato in Idaho we have to go see, then we're going to veer off and see it," Kitsis says. "Once Upon a Time" premieres this Sunday on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT.Jennifer Morrison Is 'Jealous' Of The Fairy Tale World In 'Once Upon A Time'
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You may already know this, but you can watch the entire First Episode on the Movie section of IMDB, Full Episode with no Country restriction.
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TV's new magic kingdom
Eight years in the making, B.C.-shot fairy-tale drama casts an enchanting spell
By Alex Strachan, Postmedia News October 22, 2011
Once Upon a Time
When: Premieres Sunday
Where: CTV at 7 p.m.; ABC at 8 p.m.
If they never truly believed that fairy-tale characters - and real-world scriptwriters - could live happily ever after, Once Upon a Time might never have happened.
It took Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz eight years to bring Once Upon a Time to life, by their own estimation. Part fairy-tale fantasy, part present-day mystery, the filmed-in-Vancouver story of a boy searching for his birth parents in a small, eerie town was a tricky high-wire walk.
The town's residents are unknowingly characters from classic fairy tales, trapped in a centuries-old curse. The story jumps back and forth between a fairy-tale kingdom of noble princes, sleeping beauties and an evil queen, and the present-day setting of a dark, drizzly New England town where everyone, it seems, is hiding something.
Kitsis and Horowitz wanted their tale to brim with wonder and magic, yet be underscored by a streak of darkness and malevolent threat. They wanted to create a story that would both appeal to a modern-day audience raised on realistic, present-day mysteries, yet be old enough to yearn for the innocent fairy tales of childhood.
"The idea came to us more than eight years ago," Horowitz said. "We were asking ourselves: Why are we writers? What are the kinds of stories we wanted to tell? Fairy tales are these formative kinds of stories we all grow up with. We only know how to tell the kinds of stories we know how to tell."
In Once Upon a Time, they believe they have finally found their Sleeping Beauty. Once Upon a Time premieres Sunday on a wing and a prayer. It's one of the most distinctive and unusual network TV dramas since critically acclaimed - but short-lived - efforts like Pushing Daisies, and few industry insiders give it much of a chance in a network-TV setting populated largely by cop shows, sitcoms and reality series.
"We're going to do our level best to tell these stories, and hope that people respond," Horowitz said. "We're going to try to go as far as we can."
Once Upon a Time's eclectic cast of characters includes House's Jennifer Morrison as a young woman who has closed herself off from emotion ever since she was abandoned as a baby.
She gets a rude shock one day when a 10-year-old boy, played by Mad Men's Jared Gilmore, turns up at her door, claiming to be the son she gave up for adoption years earlier.
The boy believes his newly found birth mother is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. Concerned for his emotional and mental stability, she returns him to the town where his adoptive parents raised him, even though he doesn't want to go back.
He's convinced he's trapped in the clutches of the Evil Queen, who's simply using him to find and eventually destroy Snow White.
Lana Parrilla plays the dual role of the Evil Queen and the town mayor of Storybrooke; Josh Dallas plays Prince Charming; Ginnifer Goodwin plays the dual role of Snow White and the benevolent Mary Margaret; and Robert Carlyle plays the dual role of Rumpelstiltskin and the enigmatic Mr. Gold.
"We will go back and forth between these worlds every week," Horowitz promised. "Whether the characters have any inkling they are not of this world is a good question, and one that will be pretty much answered in the second episode.
"One of the reasons we want to go back and forth between the worlds is so that we can start the stories at any point we want to, and tell any part of them we want to, and orient the audience that way. If you don't know the story of Rumpelstiltskin, or you don't know the story of Jiminy Cricket, hopefully, it won't matter, because we're coming in from a different place. If we're doing our job right, you should be able to figure out what's going on."
A more open question - and one Horowitz promises will be answered eventually - is whether the characters in the town of Storybrooke age over time. That's an aspect of the curse the story's characters don't realize, even though the audience does.
To remind viewers of the stakes involved, each episode will end with a clock ticking forward.
"Everything is ticking forward," Horowitz said. "And all bets are off."
Once Upon a Time's fairy-tale characters are inspired from past Disney films. Disney is the producing studio, with ABC, and so there are no rightsclearance issues. Different characters from different fairy tales will appear together, Kitsis added.
"We love the mishmash," he said. "We just like the idea of Jiminy Cricket talking to Prince Charming, and Geppetto and Grumpy all at a war-room council. For us, that's part of the fun of the show - bringing in all these characters from all these different stories."
The eye-filling premiere episode, handsomely mounted and pored over with loving care and attention to detail, will not be a one-off, Kitsis promised.
"What's great is that the technology has changed so much. We always felt we couldn't show this pilot and then have it be this cheap show afterwards where, every so often, we show this one scene that looks cool. Our goal is to maintain the production value throughout."
Kitsis and Horowitz come by their fairy-tale leanings honestly: They were writers and co-producers on the series Lost for six seasons, and wrote more than 20 episodes. Lost executive-producer Damon Lindelof was an early consultant on Once Upon a Time; Kitsis and Horowitz say they still connect with Lindelof frequently, as a creative sounding board.
"We make several visual references to Lost in the pilot," Horowitz said.
"We can't help ourselves." Lindelof remains involved as a spiritual adviser, Kitsis added.
"His name is not in the show, but he's in the DNA. He's been like a godfather. He's helping us realize our vision of the show, but he very much wants it to be our show. So he helps when he can. And sometimes he gives us tough love."
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QUOTEOnce Upon a Time premieres Sunday on a wing and a prayer. It's one of the most distinctive and unusual network TV dramas since critically acclaimed - but short-lived - efforts like Pushing Daisies, and few industry insiders give it much of a chance in a network-TV setting populated largely by cop shows, sitcoms and reality series.
I had no idea that insiders don't give the show much of a chance
. Nearly all the reviews have been positive. I guess it's just so different from anything else already on TV that it's hard to say what the response will be. I don't normally like fantasy-themed shows, but I did like this one enough to want to see more of it.
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' Once Upon a Time' stars give scoop on season ahead
by Sandra Gonzalez
Now that you’ve checked out the season premiere of ABC’s time-jumping fantasy effort, Once Upon A Time (from two of the masterminds behind Lost, Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz), you’ve gotten a taste of what you’re in for. But you’ve far from learned all the secrets the show plans to unleash.
When EW went to the Vancouver set earlier this month, we got to chat with the cast and executive producer Steve Pearlman about what viewers can expect from the coming pages of this tale. Here’s what we learned:
* There will be equal time spent in both worlds. The cast and crew were hard at work on episode 8 during EW’s visit, but Pearlman had read up to episode 10, and said from what he’d seen, the balance between Fairy Tale World and the real world would remain similar to the pilot in the next batch of episode. “Typically, we go into the Fairy Tale World in the first act. Sometimes it’s for a small chunk. We don’t have a rule that says we have to go into the Fairy Tale World once per act, but it kind of lays out that way for the most part,” he said.
* The first few episodes will center on Snow and Charming Show, but it won’t always be that way. One of the concerns about making the series purely centered on the romantic tale between Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Charming (Josh Dallas), said Pearlman, was that they wouldn’t be able to tell stories about other classic characters. “We’re really trying to go to a lot of different places and tie the stories back to our main characters,” he said. “If you look at the pilot, it suggests the story is about Snow and Charming and their life and Emma’s life on the Storybrook side, and we’re absolutely following and tracking those stories throughout the series. But I think [we wanted] to be able to branch out.” Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel are among the characters viewers will be seeing in the first batch of episodes. “We didn’t want to fall into the trap of some shows that have gone before us, that shall remain nameless — [coughs] FlashForward. They were so heavily into mythology that you can’t get out of it,” he said.
* Episode three will be a prequel to the pilot. “I can tell you it’s my favorite episode thus far,” Goodwin said of the episode that explains Snow and Charming’s backstory. “We go on quite an adventure and I came away with an actual, physical scar from it.”
* You won’t see comatose Charming in that state for too long. While Dallas was mum on when we’d see Charming’s real-world counterpart, Jonh Doe, come out of his deep sleep, he assured that he wouldn’t be that way forever. “No one’s come to claim him, [but] maybe when he wakes up, someone comes and claims him,” he teased. “Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s not true.”
* The war between Henry’s biological and adopted mom will get fierce. Emma Swan’s (Jennifer Morrison) arrival to Storybrook will continue to ruffle Regina’s (Lana Parrilla) feathers. And, as Morrison teases, it will get “pretty intense.” “It’s just such a complicated conflict,” she said. “It’s two women who really, I do believe, both want the best for [Henry (Jared Gilmore)], but they have two versions of the what the best for him looks like and that’s going to be a big dispute for them.”
* Even though Emma doesn’t have a fairy tale counterpart, we will learn more about her character through the others. While Morrison admitted she’s bummed that she doesn’t get a chance to have an ornate fairy-tale costume, she said she’s been pleased with the character development that has taken place. “Her backstory is revealed through her relationships with other people,” she said. “So as other people in this town need help or have problems or come to her for things, she ends up revealing parts of herself through their stories. She kind of has a slower, steadier revelation of who she is, whereas some of the other characters will have a whole episode that’s their flashback.”
* You will learn very quickly why the Evil Queen hates Snow. As teased in the preview after tonight’s episode, episode two will delve into the rivalry between the two characters. “It all definitely derives from something that happened between those two, but you’ll learn a lot about the Evil Queen and her history and why she’s so evil – why she has so much anger and hatred,” said Parrilla. “The Evil Queen is a very iconic character, and we want to know who she is.”
So, readers, what other burning questions do you have about Once Upon a Time? And what did you think of episode 1?
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CITAZIONEEmily: I LOVED the Once Upon a Time premiere and I want to know everything coming up. Tell me everything!
We can't tell you everything. But we'll tell you as much as we can. Before the fantasy wedding, baby and life-altering curse came the courtship between Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), and let's just say it wasn't quite love at first sight. In fact, it was quite the opposite. It's seriously fantastic. There are so many squee-worthy moments we get giddy just talking about it.
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S01E04 - "The Price of Gold"
CITAZIONEONCE UPON A TIME - "The Price of Gold" - Emma tries to help a young pregnant woman escape from the clutches of Mr. Gold. Meanwhile, back in the fairytale world that was, Cinderella (Jessy Schram, "Falling Skies") makes a regrettable deal with Rumplestiltskin, on "Once Upon a Time," SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC
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ONCE UPON A TIME: Co-Creator Eddy Kitsis Teases His Magical New Series
October 23, 2011 by Marisa Roffman
ONCE UPON A TIME premieres tonight on ABC at 8 PM and I adore this show so much that I’m not too proud to beg you to watch this show. (Seriously. Please watch it.) As you may have seen from the first nine minutes of the pilot, the series is absolutely magical, and I have no doubt you’ll be enchanted if you give the series a shot.
In case you need further convincing, I talked with co-creator Eddy Kitsis about balancing the show’s mythology and characters, what LOST lessons they’re applying here, and more…
There seemed to be a lot of technical storytelling questions during the TCA panel about how the show going to work beyond the pilot. Were you surprised by that?
Eddy Kitsis: No, because I think embedded in the pilot are those questions, so what we were thinking is if they weren’t asked, we didn’t do a good job raising them. And for us, all those questions people ask, we want them to, so we can answer them and then have more story. Because if you answer everything in the pilot, why are you coming back? If the first chapter of a book is the ending, why go on? It’s a pamphlet.
Absolutely. And given everything that is raised in the pilot, what do you hope is the biggest question that sticks in the audiences’ mind?
EK: It depends, because I know so much about the show. [Laughs] There are character questions: why does the Evil Queen hate Snow White so much that she’d literally do this nuclear option? Why? You don’t just get born evil, you’re made evil. Why? And I think all the questions about the curse and the aging, I think those are important questions.
You and co-creator Adam Horowitz worked on LOST for several seasons, and obviously, that show was famous for all their mysteries. What lessons did you learn from your time there that you’re using here?
EK: The thing I take most is character comes first. And when you see more ONCE UPON A TIME, you’ll see that mythology is truly secondary to character. And, in fact, in episode 2, a lot of the mythology questions get answered, and then we can move on and start telling you about characters. It’s kind of what we call the BIG philosophy — little Tom Hanks goes and says, ‘”I want to be big” and the next day he’s big, so let’s move on and tell the story.
That’s not to say we don’t have mythology and story questions. But we’re hoping they’re more about character and what makes that tick and in a more self-contained way than every week wanting to know are they going to break the curse.
Speaking of that curse, in the fairy tale land, we see that Snow White and the Prince are destined to be together, but there are fairly different circumstances to their relationship in Storybrooke when they’re Mary Margaret and John. Should we assume things will end up being mirrored or is it possible one or the other might steer in a different direction romantically?
EK: I think that’s exactly the show we want to tell, which is, you’ll realize — the easiest example I can give is Geppetto. You see how lovingly he loves Pinocchio, but in the pilot, he has no child and he never could have one. So there’s a void in his life that needs to be filled. And that to us is more important than anything else. And you’re right, Mary Margaret is a school teacher and maybe she falls in love with someone else. Maybe she doesn’t fall in love at all. Maybe her curse is to never find love.
That would be pretty much the worst thing you can do to someone who was part of an epic love story.
EK: Exactly. And that’s why we chose Snow White for the pilot. We said, if you want to show a happy ending being ripped from someone, show the happiest of them all. True love woke her up with a kiss. And then watch it be taken from her.
Fair enough. Going forward as you balance the two worlds, will it be evenly split between the fairy tale land and Storybrooke? Or will it vary week by week?
EK: Vary. I think it’s story-dependent.
Did you have the first 13 episodes mapped out, or were you more flexible with the evolution?
EK: I wouldn’t say we had it all mapped out in the sense that we’re not allowing ourselves creative freedom. What’s interesting is sometimes we’re like, “We have to get to this! We have to get to this!” And then it’s episode four already and we didn’t have time to get to it, so we have ideas and we’re building towards stuff, but we’re really interested in each episode just taking a character and finding out more about them.
The pilot is just absolutely visually stunning. Is there any worry of not being able to keep that up or thoughts that maybe you need to scale back on certain aspects going forward?
EK: We’re going to try and be as magical and awesome as possible until they cut the purse. I think the great thing about ABC is that [people] say for your very first pilot, don’t have kids and dogs. And we had kids and dogs and dwarfs and elves and curses and dragons and they were like, “Okay.” And they’ve been very much as this is as big as they said, meaning they knew they picked up something unique; they’re letting it be unique. Whether it lives or dies, for us, we need to say, even if it’s only 12 episodes, we did it exactly the way we wanted to, without any compromises. And that’s what we’re laying out there, because that’s the only way I can do this job — to love it and do my vision. And that was the other thing we learned from LOST: [co-creator] Damon [Lindelof] and [executive producer] Carlton [Cuse] said if you have a vision, stick to it. You may spend all your day defending it, but you stick to that vision. That’s what’s up there. And whether people like it or not, all you can do is pray.
Before I let you go, I have to ask: the guys at LOST very famously said they knew what the final shot of the series was going to be from the start. Do you know how this story ends?
EK: You know what? I’m going to be totally honest and say no, because I don’t know if I’m going to have five seasons. All I know is that I’m going to have 12 episodes, and I’m just saying I don’t know if another network will be dumb enough to give me and Adam another hour, so we’re going to take advantage of this con as hard as we can, and make that 12 awesome. And if we’re lucky enough to do more, we’ll have to start figuring those questions out.
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Kristin Bauer on 'Once Upon a Time' and More Exclusive First Looks!
Get your First Look at ''True Blood'' fave as Maleficent!
Rage Before (Sleeping) Beauty on Once Upon a Time
True Blood's delightfully wicked Kristin Bauer is poised to show Once Upon A Time's Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) that there's room for more than one jealous witch in town. Bauer will guest star as Sleeping Beauty's tormentor, Maleficent, on the Oct. 30 episode of ABC's time-jumping fantasy show.
Maleficent's Arrival Spells Trouble
The Evil Queen already cursed the Fairytale world with her happiness-stealing spell, but Bauer's Maleficent will have some nasty tricks up her own sleeve.
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CITAZIONEQuestion: Any scoop on Once Upon a Time? I’m so excited for Episode 2 this Sunday! —Aurore
Ausiello: Episode 3 flashes back to Snow and Prince Charming’s first meeting, and suffice it to say, it wasn’t pretty. “Their relationship is so complicated,” says Snow’s portrayer, Ginnifer Goodwin. “It was based in the beginning on real animosity and manipulation and selfishness.” (Spoiler Alert: They met on The Bachelor!) Meanwhile, Josh Dallas (a.k.a. The Prince) has this to say about the forthcoming arrival of Alan Dale as his onscreen father, King George. “The kingdom is ailing and [my dad] needs some help,” he explains. “He goes to King Midas, and they make a deal. King Midas says, ‘If your son slays this dragon, I will take care of your kingdom. I will give you gold. I will give you riches. You will be taken care of.’ So he makes a deal with Midas for me to slay this dragon.”
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CITAZIONEI really enjoyed the premiere of Once Upon a Time, especially that hot Prince Charming. What's coming up with him? — Sarah
NATALIE: Wait for it... there may be two of him! Josh Dallas teases a possible Prince and the Pauper story line in the future. In an upcoming episode, "you find out where he came from and who his parents may or may not be and maybe he has a brother," he says.
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