WHEN SFX OPENS A CHANNEL to communicate with Star Trek: Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan, he’s just seen a first pass at the season two finale and he’s a happy man. Words like “exciting” and “awesome” are being fired across the bow. It means he’s now seen the entire season and he’s evidently very pleased indeed.
He’s also been loving getting to do live recordings with an orchestra for the score, something world events prevented last year. He promises it brings a “grand, theatrical, cinematic feeling” to the show. On top of all that, season three is coming together already, with scripts and dialogue in the can. He beams a delighted smile, his eyes sparkling: “We’re having a blast.”
SHIP LIFE
Following the success of the first animated Trek comedy, two further seasons were commissioned – but McMahan says that fact didn’t change the way he wrote the crew’s second outing.
“I approach every season as if we’re going to get more seasons… you don’t want to be writing characters that have a terminal date to them,” he explains. “You want to think that these are living and breathing characters that have lives that extend past the end of your show.
“Stuff was layered in, but we didn’t know. When you’re writing that first season, you’re finding the show while you make it. You can even see when you’re watching the first season, some episodes are a little dry, some episodes are a little action-heavy, some episodes are really meta and crazy,” he considers.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2021 من SFX.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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Making Alien - Jaws in Space - Forty-five years on from its original release, Alien continues to terrify. We dissect what arguably remains the most chilling instalment in the saga
The seven-strong crew of the commercial mining spacecraft the Nostromo seal their fate after reluctantly responding to a mysterious distress signal on a hostile planet. Here, a face-hugging alien from a derelict ship impregnates and later kills executive officer Kane (John Hurt) after its offspring is birthed onboard. After being unleashed, the fearsome newborn with acid for blood proceeds to dispatch the remainder of the crew.Ridley Scott's much more convoluted prequels have yet to reveal how the knowledge that led to this initial interception was acquired. However, the premise of the original Alien is perfect in its uncomplicated purity.
PURE AND SIMPLE
IN THE FINAL PART OF OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, SHOWRUNNER RUSSELL T DAVIES TALKS RELAUNCHING DOCTOR WHO
TO CAP IT ALL OFF
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE BBC SERIES THE TRIPODS
FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE WALKING DEAD SPIN-OFF SHOWRUNNER DAVID ZABEL ON BEING GIVEN THE TOUGH TASK OF REUNITING DARYL AND CAROL IN FRANCE
SILENT KILLERS
THE DIRECTOR OF HOLLYWOOD'S SPEAK NO EVIL REMAKE ON HORROR, COMEDY AND JAMES MCAVOY
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
THE GHOST WITH THE MOST RETURNS FINALLY - IN BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
TEENAGE DREAM
JOE LOCKE HITS THE ROAD RUNNING
MOB RULE THE PENGUIN
GOTHAM'S UP FOR GRABS IN BRUISING NEW CRIME SAGA BUT WHERE IS THE BATMAN?
SEASON OF THE WITCH
AS MARVEL TELEVISION CARVES OUT A NEW PATH FOR ITSELF, WE SPEAK TO CREATOR JAC SCHAEFFER, PLUS A CAST OF STARS LED BY KATHRYN HAHN AND JOE LOCKE, ABOUT THE MAGIC OF WANDAVISION'S SPIN-OFF AGATHA ALL ALONG
Ghouls Allowed
Even silence can't save you at this year's Halloween Horror Nights
