Raygun Robyn continues her hard-hitting investigation/ resuscitation of NBC’s Chuck this time in a conference call with Joshua Gomez, the actor responsible for Chuck’s best friend, Morgan Grimes.
Full Story »Moms and Dads and Kids and Brains
Earlier this summer, the fabulous Mary Higgins, her husband, and her children embarked on the kind of epic project that puts quality time in the annals of awesome: they wrote, produced, and filmed a zombie period piece as a webseries. Here, Mary talks about the concept for the series, the challenges of working with loved ones, and the advantages of removing everyone’s heads while filming.
Full Story »Jane Espenson: Cheeks, Beau, and Buffy
How long have you know Cheeks? How did you meet him? I met Cheeks a while back – maybe two years ago. I found his material on YouTube and thought it was hilarious. I didn’t just admire the performance and the presence, but the writing, too; it blew me away. Strangely, though, my first thoughts were about [...]
Full Story »Jane Espenson on Producing
“Just like on broadcast TV, you just have to write like a sane person – don’t write stuff you can’t afford. That only got easier when the money was mine!”
Full Story »Jane Espenson on Writing Husbands
Last week, Pink Raygun crowdsourced questions for Jane Espenson on her new webseries, Husbands. Today, we have the first wave of answers from Jane herself.
Full Story »Interview: Wendy Powell
To me one of the best things about anime “celebrities” – voice actors, directors, producers, artists – is that they are so accessible to the fans. They participate in conventions, hosting panels about themselves as well as anime related topics. They sign autographs without charging fees, they take part in silly activities, and they don’t treat convention goers like idiots (even if they are wearing cardboard clouds, sparkles, a sign that says “Free Hugs” and not much else). Anime celebrities are real, down-to-earth people who we can relate to and like, even in real life. And one of the most down-to-earth of all is Wendy Powell, she of the deep voice and southern drawl, that hails from Texas and provided the voice of Envy from both popular Fullmetal Alchemist series.
Full Story »Low-fi Sci-fi with Mia Trachinger
A couple in bunny suits are employed as “comfort strangers” to the city at large. Government agents who are walking contagions in an effort to mass-immunize the population. Humans who are born without the ability to delineate time.
This is the low-fi sci-fi world of director/screenwriter Mia Trachinger.
Full Story »Appetites: Not Your Mother’s Cookbook
When you look at the Appetites app, it looks less like something out of Star Trek, and more like something out of Harry Potter. I imagine that the pages of Hagrid’s cookbooks have a similar aesthetic; however, I’m sure Appetites could have made his treacle fudge, rock cakes, and bath buns slightly more edible.
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Interview with Vampire Cowboys’ Qui Nguyen and Paco Tolson: The Baddest Renegades of Geek Theater!
When I sit on the subway, there’s not the majority of any race. This is a town where it’s not about segregation. Yet our entertainment is so often, ‘Here’s the white show; here’s the black show.’ With us that’s not how we take in our lives, so why are we presenting [that] on stage? So for Vampire Cowboys, [it’s] very much like, “this is who we are and we want to make sure that it’s inclusive to everyone; that everyone feels like they have a hero.”
Full Story »Interview: Elisa Eliot from We’re Alive
In We’re Alive, Elisa Eliot plays the role of Pegs, the pacifist florist and eternal optimist. She took the time to answer some questions for Pink Ray Gun about herself, her character, and her views about zombies in a sociological sense.
Full Story »Comics Interview: Oliver Mertz and Mike Isenberg
One of my biggest frustrations as a writer is that I can’t draw. There are stories in my head that just can’t come out the way I want because, when that pencil goes to task, it just comes out a mess.
Naturally, I’m very interested to know how Oliver Mertz and Mike Isenberg, creators and writers on the indie comic First Law of Mad Science went about getting their ideas drawn and produced. Here, Oliver and Mike talk about finding an artist, getting First Law of Mad Science into production, and karaoke.
Full Story »Tom Wheeler Talks About The Cape
By Thera Pitts – Like the humble citizens of a fictional metropolis (for example, Metropolis) fanboys and girls the world over are surrounded by superheroes, in books, in the movies and more frequently than eve, on the small screen. With Smallville coming to a close, No Ordinary Family doing well in the ratings and countless other hero dramas rumored to be in the works at various networks, standing out is key. Creator Tom Wheeler, hopes to do just that with his upcoming NBC series, The Cape
Full Story »Merlin Q and A Transcript
Read the full transcript for the conference Q&A with Merlin stars Colin Morgan and Bradley James after the jump.
Full Story »Merlin Q and A: Bringing Legends to Life
by Sylvia Bond
Phone Interview – Bradley James and Colin Morgan of Merlin
When my friend in Alaska first told me about this new show she was watching called Merlin, I said no, I wasn’t interested. If I wanted to watch an old English legend being re-created once again, then my heart already belonged to the wonderful Showtime version of the legend of Robin Hood called Robin of Sherwood.
Full Story »Fact or Faked: Q & A with Ben Hansen and Jael de Pardo
By The Sisters Sardonic – One of the Sisters’ favorite shows came back to us recently and oh, how we have missed it. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files premiered after a brief hiatus. This is the show that brought us one of our most freaked-out, what-was-that moments. They introduced us to what we lovingly and terrifyingly refer to as “the clothespin monster,” a bizarre bipedal creature that could not be identified. Look up the episode “Unwanted Visitors/Strange Sightings” and prepare to be freaked. If it doesn’t freak you out, well, FRIENDSHIP OVER.
Full Story »Scare Tactics: Interview with Creator Scott Hallock
By The Sisters Sardonic – Why do we love to be scared? Why do we find it so fun to scare others? Maybe it’s the sudden adrenaline rush, or the desire to see a totally authentic, uninhibited reaction, from someone. Whatever the reason, fear can be good clean fun and the creative team behind the Syfy TV show Scare Tactics has it figured out. For four seasons, viewers have been tuning in to watch the madness and mayhem that Scott Hallock and Kevin Healey have produced, deliberately scaring people out of their wits with monsters, aliens and the scariest monsters of all: people.
Full Story »Synapse: A Free Character-Driven RPG
RPG-creator Greg Christopher argues that RPGs for consoles are limited because you are still restricted by someone else’s world, thereby limiting your choices. Your characters as well as the world around them can only evolve and change according to the settings prescribed by the person who designed that game. Greg saw this limitation and created Synapse, which allows players “to take all the ideas that you have about how you wish your console games would actually work, and actually play them.”
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