‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ Co-Creators Explain Their ‘Big Swing’ to Turn ‘A’ Into a Slasher
02.08.2022 - 05:53
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TheWrap: Obviously this property is very beloved. How did you decide what you’d take with you from the original series and what you’d leave behind to forge this new path?Bring: We were fans of the original show and a couple of things that we really clung to that we love so much about it were one, that it’s centered on female friendship. We love that.
And then of course, the mysteries throughout the show, the lies, the secrets and this concept of ‘A.’ So we knew that that was in the DNA of the franchise, and we knew we wanted to have that as well. But we also want to expand upon the universe and make sure that we were our own thing while still giving love and honor to the original. So the first big swing for us was making this a horror show specifically, and making this a slasher horror show.
It was about making a masked killer like Leatherface or Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger. And really, then it was about creating new characters in a new town to speak to the times we’re in now.There’s this tagline floating around, ‘it’s not what you think, bitches.’ Is that what you mean?Aguirre-Sacasa: An unofficial tagline (laughs). I think whenever you’re working on a new version of an existing property, everyone has expectations of what that’s going to be or what they want it to be.
And I think for us, the idea was, if we’re going to do this, we want to honor the original, but also make sure we’re doing something new. So that, I think, is a cheeky way of saying, ‘You know, it may not be exactly what you think. Hopefully it’ll surprise you.’ That’s our hope — is that people who love the original will be like, ‘Oh, this does feel different enough.’ ‘Cause sometimes it’s like, we’ll just watch the original.
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