Lightning In A Bottle
Harmon stated they wrote the pilot script between six and eight hours. “Yeah, we broke the story the identical day that we pitched it to the community after which went and drafted it up proper after that,” Roiland advised the LA Instances. “It’s not at all times that quick. It was type of lightning in a bottle. Dan was type of able to name it a day, and I simply felt it. I used to be like, ‘It’s in my head now.’ And I’ll procrastinate fairly unhealthy. However that day, for some motive, I used to be like, we have to do it.”
Harmon elaborated: “We actually had simply bought the concept to Nick Weidenfeld (then head of program growth for Grownup Swim), and he was strolling out of my unfurnished, empty Group workplace the place I pitched it to him. We had been sitting on the ground, cross-legged with laptops, and I used to be about to rise up and go house, and (Roiland) stated, ‘Wait, in the event you go house, it would take us three months to write down this factor. Keep right here proper now, and we will write it in six hours.’ He simply had a premonition about that. It was between Seasons 2 and three of Group.”
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