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February 2001
Behind-the-Scenes on 'The Zeta Project'
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Tues., Feb. 6, 2001 8:28

Steve Fritz of Fandom.com interviewed The Zeta Project creator Robert Goodman and writer Liz Holzman last week with a detailed look behind the scenes on the production of Kids WB's new series.



It can be said that Zeta is a spin-off of the Batman Beyond series. Yet there`s a lot more story to this new show than that. It marks the first time the two Warner Animation divisions are working together, pooling their respective talents to come up with a show they hope will highlight the strengths of both sides.

[Zeta] began in 1999, while [Robert Goodman] was a scriptwriter for Batman Beyond. He came up with an episode where the Batman of the future had to hunt down an android assassin who had gone rogue. What he was to discover was this android, called Zeta, had started thinking on its own. Its most important thought was life was too precious to be destroyed.

"When we first wrote the Batman Beyond episode, there was no thought at all about spinning Zeta off into his own series," Goodman recalls. "In fact, in my original draft of the story had Zeta dying at the end of it."

"[Zeta is] very childlike," says Goodman. "Think of him as a child with a lot of dangerous weapons. He`s only been active for maybe a year before the series begins. So everything is new to him. Traveling among humans is very new to him. He's still trying to figure out how to pass among people and act like them. He's very naive.

"Batman Beyond wasn`t a DC character when we thought of it, but Zeta is now a spin-off a spin-off. Still, it's still pretty unique that a totally new character has come out of this building and is strong enough to have its own series.

"It's going out on a limb with an original character over here. That's kind of risky, but it feels great. I can't predict the future, but it feels like anything is possible."



To read the complete interview, visit Fandom.com

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