‘Heroes’ Jeph Loeb interview - how scripts comes alive
Wizard Top Ten Writer Jeph Loeb, well known for his previous work on both Smallvile and Lost, is an integral producer and writer for ‘Heroes’. iFMagazine interviewed him about the writing secrets of this breakaway new show.
Here’s an excerpt -
“The gift of this show (Heroes) was that the character’s stories particularly in the beginning were very modular; so that you could write all of Claire’s story for the entire first three episodes and never bump into anybody else. That’s a tremendous gift to sit down and realize that your responsibility for this episode is six to eight pages. When you multiply that by six or eight people, you can turn a script around within a week. It was a grand experiment and it should’ve blown up in our faces and instead it turned out to be damn good! I think that speaks volumes about the process we go through in terms of breaking the story and following an outline that we were all involved in.
“Certainly, when I was on SMALLVILLE you could never do that because the main story was the story. On LOST, all the stories were pretty much geared around the person in the flashback. Often on LOST we broke stories around the person in the past and then broke the island story; in order to make those two things match up with one another.”
Read the full interview here.
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