PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA, THE: INSIDE MEDIA: NEW SERIES WORLD PREMIERE: LONE STAR {LONG VERSION}
Summary
One in a series of evenings and special screenings presented as part of The Paley Center for Media's Inside Media events. Held at the Paley Center in Los Angeles, this seminar celebrates the world premiere of "Lone Star," a drama series about a con man juggling two lives, and two women, in different parts of Texas. The evening begins as Craig Hitchcock (executive director, The Paley Center in Los Angeles) offers opening remarks. Hitchcock then introduces the evening's moderator, Denise Martin (editor, TVGuide.com). She brings executive producer/writer/creator Kyle Killen to the stage to introduce the pilot episode, which is screened in its entirety. (For synopsis and credits, see ACCNUM 103922.)
Afterward, Martin takes the stage with the panelists: Killen; executive producers Kerry Kohansky, Christopher Keyser, and Amy Lippman; and cast members James Wolk (Bob Allen); Eloise Mumford (Lindsay); Bryce Johnson (Drew Thatcher); David Keith (John Allen); Adrianne Palicki (Cat Thatcher); Jon Voight (Clint Thatcher); and Mark Deklin (Trammell Thatcher).
Panelists touch on such topics as: the producers' surprise when the Fox network picked up the show; the two scenes in the pilot which made the skeptical Lippman become an executive producer; what Keith considers to be the "toughest, most impossible, uphill task you can imagine" on TV; how Voight was convinced to join the cast, despite concerns about his character; Wolk having found eerie similarities to his childhood within the lead role; Palicki's challenges in moving from a "Friday Night Lights" supporting part to leading lady status; Johnson's belief that a story about "oil, money, and scandal" was a can't-miss proposition; Killen's struggle to boil down storylines to forty-four-minute timeframes; if the lead character's two wives are destined to face off; and why the show is "a nightmare" to write.
Questions from the audience then lead to a discussion of the following: if Wolk is exhausted by playing a character with two lives and two wives; Wolk's efforts to make his character sympathetic; why Deklin's role was the last character to be cast; Mumford getting her part a month after moving to Hollywood; the sense of foreboding and tension which marked the pilot; if the show has any connection to John Sayles's 1996 film of the same name; how the "con man world" is being researched; if the concept of having "good guys" in the oil business makes the plot seem dated; parallels between the show's anti-hero and the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"; the various meanings of the show's title; and the benefits of shooting in Texas, where the series is set.
Details
- NETWORK: N/A
- DATE: July 20, 2010 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:36:35
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 103286
- GENRE: Seminars
- SUBJECT HEADING: N/A
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CREDITS
- Craig Hitchcock … Host
- Denise Martin … Moderator
- Kyle Killen … Panelist
- Kerry Kohansky … Panelist
- Christopher Keyser … Panelist
- Amy Lippman … Panelist
- James Wolk … Panelist
- Eloise Mumford … Panelist
- Bryce Johnson … Panelist
- David Keith … Panelist
- Adrianne Palicki … Panelist
- Jon Voight … Panelist
- Mark Deklin … Panelist
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- John Sayles