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| February
2001 |
Behind-the-Scenes
on 'The Zeta Project'
Gookie
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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