Armando Iannucci, creator of 'Veep' and 'Avenue 5,' says the best sci-fi is closer to home: 'It's just taking something from today and cranking it up a bit.'
, you seem to be drawn to telling stories about people in positions of power who seemingly have no idea what they’re doing.I think we're all like that. I've spent a lot of my life going through this kind of imposter syndrome thing. “We'll find out sooner or later. I think we got away with that one.” Then when you meet people, you do your research and so on, you realize, "Oh, it's all like that.
But also, who do we ultimately elect as our leader? The fact that [some politicians] are conditioned by how it should look—the TV version.was doing that. When he was casting the secretary of state and casting his defense secretary, he talked about, "They must look like they've come out of central casting. They must look the part.". He’s “running” the ship but he’s not a real captain.that we wanted to play with.
Along with letting Laurie show off his comedic chops and American accent, what inspired you to createI wanted to look at society. I wanted to look at group think, I wanted to get away from politics and look at just behavior. I've always been a huge fan of sci-fi. I always used to read H.G. Wells and [Isaac] Asimov. I always used to buy all the Marvel comics.
The best sci-fi is really not about magic and aliens, it's about today. It's just taking something from today and cranking it up a bit. I loved the reboot of. It's really about politics and power dynamics and discrimination, and all sorts of things going on there with the Cylons, and terrorism, as well. I thought, "Let's do something like that.” Very quickly we came up with this idea of a space cruise that is stuck for eight years.
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