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 Michael Patrick King
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime As much as great actors make a great movie or TV series, there’s another crucial aspect that may be the most defining factor between a fantastic work and pure crap, and that is great writing. Michael Patrick King has been one of the overlooked key factors behind HBO TV comedy’s Sex And The City’s incredible success as the show’s writer, director, and executive producer. Now the 53 year-old prepares to return to the fold as writer, producer, and director of the long-awaited Sex & The City movie. As the creative force behind the film, we asked King the one question fans of any successful TV series would have when they first learn of something like this coming up, why a theatrical movie? “Well, first of all, I thought we did television really well and I thought we ended it well,” Michael replies, “I mean, the expression of the finale felt a little like a movie. The series was always a bit cinematic. Sometimes, there were like 38 scenes in 30 minutes. We told a lot of story. So the idea of coming back again, how do you top literally what you did? You don’t and you evolve into the next thing and each season, the series evolved.” “It changed every year,” he continues, “So the next evolution seems to be a bigger picture. Well, I got the ability to tell a bigger story. It’s fun to tell a story that spanned a year and I think there’s a difference between the series and the movie. It’s just that the series was a lot more talky and a lot more close up talking heads and the movie has a much more visual quality and non-verbal quality there. I really think everybody did an amazing job.” However, when asked whose idea it was to even continue the series with movie, Michael is quick to note that it certainly was not his idea. “Actually, when the series ended, I was quite happy that the chapter was closed and I put it away,” he claims, “And suddenly, when the movie became a reality this time, Sarah Jessica [Parker] called me and said, ‘We’re thinking about doing the movie again. We’re going to start? What do you think?’ And I said it has to be a new story. She goes, ‘Yeah, I know. I agree. It has to be totally new.’” “I always knew that if there was ever another story, that the great story left untold was the big story,” King adds, “That’s all anybody ever asked me. Would Carrie and Big get married? Would they? How would it work? Would they be happy? Would it stick? So I knew that, from a technical point of view, I knew that the scaffold for the entire building was going to be the Carrie and Big wedding, if it happened, if it didn’t happen.” While most people would be rather skeptical about the necessity of a TV series continuing with a big-screen movie, King is quick |
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