#Tut on spike tv movie#
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#Tut on spike tv tv#

But he’s replaced immediately as Pharoah by Ay. And if you look back, historical documents tell us that after nine years as Pharoah, Tut dies at age 19. This season is mostly Tut and his main adviser Ay in this season.

We were careful to keep alive the various storylines and keep the option of a second season available. It’s Tut’s story, but he’s really a through line to talk about the relationships between the other characters. The good thing is that the show is a true ensemble cast. If this is successful, is there a plan in place to do a second season?

#Tut on spike tv license#

We took considerable license with him, but based the initial elements as close to history as we could. We get a chance to see his chariot and the bed that he used - everything is there. There are just these little details that you would otherwise never find, because they would just be destroyed by the ages. It was a sobering and somewhat sad fact of his life. When they unearthed his tomb, there was something like 119 canes they sent with him to the after-world. He was essentially inbred because his parents and grandparents and great-grandparents were brothers and sisters or cousins. By point of fact, he was probably not able to get up and run around. We were able to use what was found in his tomb to help flesh out his story. How much of the finished project is based on Tut’s real life?

#Tut on spike tv movie#

The average big movie in this country has maybe a dozen stunt guys on it. We had 65 stunt guys every day for eight or nine weeks. We had 800 background people on set every day for weeks in a row. All of us - from Spike and the other producers to the writer and every department head - found ourselves a bit amazed over what we created. And when I realized this, long before we started to shoot, that was part of the appeal frankly. Which is odd, because he’s one of the most recognized figures worldwide.

#Tut on spike tv tv#

There have been a few documentary-style dramas, but there’s never been a Tut film, not in TV or the movies. Going back to the direct lineage of Liz Taylor in Cleopatra, no one has ever told the story of Tut. It’s pretty amazing that there he hasn’t been more of the focus of a movie before this one. Tut is a well-known historical figure, but I don’t recall there ever being a movie done about him. Ultimately, the Spike executives and everyone else involved were all more or less saw the same picture - and that was the key to getting it done. We wanted to tell it with the energy that was required to keep the audience engaged, emotionally and physically. Paring the script down helped tell the story in the most limited way possible.

#Tut on spike tv series#

When I came on board, I suggested to writer Michael Vickerman that we cut 65 pages out of the script because otherwise we would have an eight- or 10-hour series on our hands. What kind of feedback did Spike have during production? These people were as much wanting to get people to watch the show as to announce that Spike has been redesigned into a general entertainment network where you can turn to programming as far afield as a big sword and sandals epic. This was a more aggressive foray in scripted programming than the other ones. But I think that’s part of the point for them. Tut isn’t the obvious choice for your first scripted series if you’ve never done it before. But they were also very interested in supporting the ideas I had put forth early on. Far from it - they had very specific opinions. It’s not as if they didn’t have opinions. They got behind me and they were very good to work with. You worked with WGN America on its first scripted series - Salem - how did Spike compare after being out of the scripted game for eight years? 'Ren & Stimpy' Creator's Years of Harassment, Predatory Behavior Detailed in New Report