It starts with me and Im inWickedand Im all green, finishing Defying Gravity or one of those songs.
The conceptual idea would have involved characters including Nosferatu piling on him for the production blunder, OBrien recalled.
A tuxedo-clad OBrien was shown emerging fully dressed from Demi Moores back.
We loved it, he recalled.
It was hammered out before the fires happened, and even after that we kind of honed it.
The Billy Crystal-esque opening wasnt the only thing to hit the cutting-room floor, OBrien and Sweeney said.
One idea had the sandworm being lowered from the ceiling to talk to OBrien.
He was going to have lines, OBrien said.
The conceit, OBrien explained, was were fighting about things couples fight about.
At one point, I thought wouldnt it be great if its just on the couch?
Or could you at least get up and help?
One of the people from the Academy came forward and said, Oscar can never be horizontal.
And that blew my mind.
Like, wow, this is like the thigh bone of St. Peter.
This is a religious icon.
Sweeney said the writers also wanted to put an apron on Oscar and show him serving OBrien leftovers.
They said, No clothing on Oscar,' he laughed.
The Oscar promodid end up being released, with the main concept intact but minus those punch-ups.
So many of the narratives kept changing.
