SPOILER ALERT:This story contains details from the Season 1 finale ofParadiseonHulu.
Sinatra should have let her play the Wii!
Whered that come from?
Dan Fogelman (inset) and Sterling K. Brown in ‘Paradise’Getty/Hulu
It is exactly the book that Cal would use.
So we optioned it.
Thats probably as far as it goes.
DEADLINE:And what is it about Nicholsons character that reminded him of Sinatra?
FOGELMAN: Its the leadership.
Shes the true leader.
Thats how he saw Sinatra, the top of the heap of that group and those singers.
DEADLINE:Lets back up.
So its a very fair question.
But I never really questioned that, honestly.
But this was always the plan.
Every other question youve been asking in the course of the season, likeWho killed the president?
What happened in the world?
What was the catastrophe?
What is this?That all would have been answered in a satisfying way.
I probably wouldve had to self-publish a bit of fan fiction or something to tell people what happened.
DEADLINE:So is it okay to come to the conclusion now that Sinatra really isnt a bad person?
Clearly shes played the delicious part of a super villain for a bulk of the season.
We also know how the super villain was born and what her origin story was.
What her long-term plan is has still not been revealed.
DEADLINE:Whats up with Jane Driscoll [Nicole Brydon Bloom] and her love of the Wii game?
Is that just a rig for you to show that this woman is a little off?
FOGELMAN: I think so.
Janes story remains to be told, but I find her delightful playing her thus far as a sociopath.
She didnt necessarily shoot Sinatra because she wanted to play the Wii.
Or, shes just batsh*t crazy.
That is a question that looms for the season to come.
DEADLINE:Why Wii?
Its kind of outdated.
FOGELMAN: In our minds eye, Cal brought the Wii.
DEADLINE:How grateful are you for Phil Collins and his song Just Another Day in Paradise?
They never said no, which was the part that got misreported.
When I got into the edit bay, we found this cover of Just Another Day in Paradise.
Quickly we were like, oh, it works so beautifully at the end of the episode.
And yes, Im grateful to Phil Collins every day.
I have an old vintage truck that has a CD player in it, not a radio.
And Phil Collins is on heavy rotation in my CD player.
DEADLINE:Where did you shoot the scene where the librarian jumps to his death?
FOGELMAN:We shot that on a sound stage in Los Angeles and built some infrastructure.
It was all done by our incredible visual effects team.
The librarian stood on a platform and jumped into a green pad off of a beam.
DEADLINE:Whats the backstory on the cashew cheese fries in the restaurant?
Its a lot more plant-based down there, which they could grow with artificial sunlight.
So thats where the cashew cheese comes from.
Then we needed something that could be an indicator of something thats amiss with this waitress.
DEADLINE:How deep are you already into Season 2?
Have you already broken stories?
FOGELMAN: Oh yeah.
We go into production in four weeks.
So if we came out in early 2025, hopefully the next seasons out by early 2026.
