Fear Itself features a different story every week, with new stars and even new directors bringing their vision to television. Aside from that though, there is sort of a well oiled machine in the crew. Producer Andrew Deane gave his team props.
Making Fear Itself
"Each episode's an entirely a different director, entirely new casts, but we rotate our directors of photography from episode to episode," Deane said. "So while one is shooting the next is prepping and vice versa. Steve Geaghan is the Production Designer, and then Suki Parker is the Art Director."
For Deane, the shows are so consistent, he would not play favorites. "They’re all so well done for what they’re supposed to be for each film, I can’t really, I couldn’t really say they. They’re each my favorite. What appeals to you might not appeal to the next person, might not appeal to me. What my favorite is won’t be the next person’s favorite, so I think they’re all extremely entertaining and very well done and we’ll have certainly each will have fans and audiences hopefully a majority will appeal to a majority."
While some of the early episodes have had twist endings, that will not be a mandate for Fear Itself. "Some do and some don’t but that’s coincidental as to the order of them that these first three happen to have that. It’s a coincidence. As Keith said, some are more Twilight Zone-y."
While NBC may have more restrictions on violence than Showtime, the exercise is still fulfilling to the talent. "I think what also makes it exciting and fun to do is to give the writers, directors, and the performers all an opportunity to do something with a little more freedom than they would ordinarily have and I think the results reflect that."
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