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"X-Men:
Evolution" and The Write Stuff
Gookie
Mon., Jan 29 10:20 2001
Fandom.com
contributor Frank Garcia recently interviewed animation writers Christy
Marx and Randy Littlejohn who offered behind-the-scenes details on
the development of the upcoming X-Men:Evolution
episode "Spikecam":
The selected idea that would become the basis for an episode was this:
"A Day in the Spyke: [Teacher] Mr. Vandermeer arranges for Evan to
participate in an NPR [National Public Radio]-style 'day in the life'
visual journal. Evan gets a cool camcorder and is told to record every
aspect of his life for a few days for a TV show on today's American
teenagers. Evan thinks this is the coolest thing ever, but his constant
in-your-face camera is driving his teammates and friends crazy. And
it gets pretty tough trying to do a documentary on a "normal" teenage
life when your friends have a tendency to phase through walls, shoot
eyebeams, have chance encounters with Juggernaut or Sabretooth, have
to deal with the Blobor Toad. Poor Evan - he has the most fantastic
footage in the world... but what can he actually turn in?"
From that description, an outline and script was crafted and submitted,
as well as incorporating notes provided by Forward and the network.
"It was interesting to work on this with my writing partner, Randy,
who had no familiarity with the X-Men other than seeing the movie,"
says Marx. "He helped keep me straight in concentrating on this batch
of characters and coming up with ideas that worked within these parameters.
The trick for me was combine my years of knowledge and love for the
X-Men I know with this new take on them and not get hung up on thinking,
'Oh, that's not the real Cyclops.' It offers the same opportunities
as any other series: you look at the setup, you look at the characters
and you try to come up with interesting stories for the material that`s
in front of you."
Marx describes Spyke as "a boisterous outgoing sort, gets along withothers
pretty well, but is bound to ruffle feathers from time time."
To read the complete interview, visit Fandom.com |
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