“People were so used to being cast into ‘types’ rather than specific characters, they tailored their performances to fit the ‘type’ rather than the material,” Landis writes. Going against the grain in Hollywood made casting his show difficult.
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They’re each eccentric in their own ways, and their primary concerns are, respectively, revenge, survival of a debilitating disease, and perpetrating a series of incredibly violent murders.”
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“They’re too busy dealing with a shitstorm of chaos in their personal, professional and, in Bart’s case, spiritual lives. “None of the female leads of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency have a particularly romantic storyline in Season 1,” he says.
To that end, Landis says the women on the show won’t be falling into the common trope traps seen in most television and movies. Instead, he’s worked to channel the author’s tone while telling entirely new stories.
Landis says he’s not doing a straight adaptation of Adams’ work. “None of them are sexy bad-asses,” Landis explained via Twitter, “none of them are damsels in distress, none of them are quippy clever ‘Cool Chicks,’ and none of them are ‘Powerful Female Women in Charge.’ They’re all sort of screwballs, black sheep and outcasts, just like the rest of the characters on the show.” Showrunner Max Landis behind the scenes at Dirk GentlyĪdams’ Gently novels trafficked heavily in the “screwball” with the eponymous character routinely dealing with alien ghosts, ancient gods, time-traveling professors and heavily-armed kangaroos. The show will debut this fall and, while the new Dirk ( Samuel Barnett) is, as he was originally written, a male Brit, Landis has populated his new TV world with a group of female characters best described as unusual by Hollywood standards. Right) is currently overseeing filming on BBC America’s new take on Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently character. Screenwriter Max Landis ( Chronicle, American Ultra, Mr.
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