Toro on FX giving him the freedom to make the show his own:
I got a call from the head of FX, John Landgraf, and he said, ‘Look I want you to know that we encourage creator content. I want you to know that we are delighted that you are here. Not just because you’ve made Hollywood movies, but because of your more quirky idiosyncratic ones. I urge you to be as idiosyncratic and as personal as you want in your handling of the pilot and the series.’ And that’s when I went ahead and felt free. There were no afterthought phone calls. They were very, very pleased. Because among the moments of brutality I made sure the series had huge production value. I wanted the series to feel big and daring in the scope of the pilot because you are trying to establish a big world. We fluctuate in the first season between big scope things and small things. I think the series, the idea for me is you can see how a family spends time together. If they destroy each other or redeem each other. We have scenes with dozes and dozens of vampires and I’ve enjoyed that.
On having finished scripts for the entire first season, and continuing with the second season:
We knew we needed to map out the season and when we opened the writer’s room, Chuck [Hogan] and myself were there to map out the season. We had a very long pre-production, I had to supervise the sculpting of every single make-up effect in the series to keep it under budget, I had to map out every aspect of the digital assets in order to keep the whole season in scope and under budget. It was a creative decision and a purely practical one. We would do it again with a lot more knowledge of where we needed to go. There was a very beautiful learning curve on the first season. It was incredibly useful for the actors and incredibly useful to ourselves.
Finally, the director reveals that re-writes and tweaks are always being done:
We were rewriting constantly. We were coming up with opening sequences for Episode 3 while we were shooting Episode 5. We would come up with the middle of Episode 6 while shooting Episode 9. I supervised every visual effect in the series. I helped color timed very closely with each episodes. We kept it moving.I would shoot occasional second unit on Saturdays for the episodes. It was very useful to not have the burden of planning out the next week
The Strain is a high concept thriller from Academy Award® nominated Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, author Chuck Hogan and writer/producer Carlton Cuse, which is based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy of the same title written by del Toro and Hogan. It tells the story of “Dr. Ephraim Goodweather,” the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of anancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself. The Strain premieres July 13th, 2014 on FX.
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