ADVENTURE TIME DISTANT LANDS SERIES

We weren’t sure if it would find a space in the very end, like if it would still make sense by the time we broke the story and wrote the outlines. I don’t know if it was Day 1, but it did come to mind pretty early. Did you know from Day 1 that you wanted to make “BMO” a prequel episode? TVLINE | Realizing at the end of “BMO” that the whole thing took place before Adventure Time blew my mind. We’re basically making four pilots for four different shows that we know will only go for one episode each. We had to build these worlds that felt like Adventure Time but also had to feel interesting enough on their own. Yeah, that’s also something we realized while we were working on these.

TVLINE | The one about Peppermint Butler going to wizard school sounds like the pilot of a show I know I would watch. If they didn’t show up at all, it would feel like we weren’t totally connecting it to the main story. The real estate does feel more precious, so it would have been hard not to do something substantial with Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, and even Finn and Jake. At some point, it just starts being the show again, and we don’t want to encroach on what we did with the series. The further on we go, that’s where it starts to get harder. BMO has been a pretty well-liked character from the beginning. There are a lot of characters who could do one-off episodes, but when it came to making this an hour-long thing, it felt like some of those might be too thin. That’s been one of the tougher parts, figuring out who to focus on, and how obscure is too obscure.

TVLINE | With only four episodes in Distant Lands, how did you decide which four characters - or pairs of characters - you were going to focus on?

ADVENTURE TIME DISTANT LANDS SERIES

HBO Max Reveals Synopses for All Four 'Adventure Time: Distant Lands' SpecialsĪdventure Time EP Talks Bubblegum and Marceline's Series Finale Moment: 'There's Enough to Draw a Conclusion' At the time, they were into the idea, but there wasn’t a place for it, so we just put it on the shelf. It was a way we could keep it special and focus on other characters. But having had some success with the miniseries, we sort of pitched that as a way to extend it without just doing more episodes. When you were putting that together, did you know Distant Lands would be happening, or did you really think the finale was the last we’d see any of these characters?Īt the time, there wasn’t particularly a need to have more. TVLINE | The last time we talked was for the Adventure Time series finale. Fortunately, TVLine was able to get executive producer Adam Muto on the line to shed some light on the situation. Like one of the Ooo’s fateful Catalyst Comets, the first Adventure Time: Distant Lands special landed on HBO Max last month ( click here to read our recap!), affording us 45 more minutes of quality time with everyone’s favorite talking video game console.Īs is the case with most Adventure Time offerings, however, “BMO” raised just as many questions as it answered.

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