Lieber: I don't know if we were trying to do that. There have been so many stories throughout the years that touch on identity and what it means to be human, but were there any stories in particular that you were looking to for inspiration? Anything that had you saying, “ That’s what we want to do?” or “ That’s what we want to avoid?”
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I think the two of us work really well together because I was coming at it from one direction, which is my feelings about how to allow a child to become an adult, and Charlie was coming from a lived experience of coming to consciousness and realizing that he created a version of himself that everybody had taken in and that maybe that wasn't exactly who he wanted to be. Once you have a piece of technology that doesn't know it's a piece of technology, how is that any different from a child? What Charlie was working on, from his point of view, translated to me into how does one parent someone who you gave the programming to and you gave the DNA to, and you are hoping that they will achieve their own machine learning and leave you. Jeffrey Lieber: I have two kids who are now almost 16 and just 18. Then when I brought the idea to Jeffery, he came in with a perspective of a parent. Obviously, Aisha's story is much more heightened than mine, but that's where the idea initially started from, is really wanting to explore those ideas. I wasn't being the person that I was in real life online and so I was really interested in stories about identity. I was grappling with the fact that this persona that I created when I was 16 was something that I was still performing as an adult. I started when I was a teenager and as I got older I was having something of an identity crisis. That was my job and career for almost 11 years. SYFY WIRE spoke with McDonnell and Lieber about Don’t Look Deeper’s origin, Frankenstein-adjacent inspiration, and Quibi’s “quick bites.”Ĭould you tell me a little bit about where the idea for Don’t Look Deeper stemmed from?Ĭharlie McDonnell: It started with me. “I think that was a really good match and it's part of why I think it'll be successful in a certain way, because, again, it was always intended to be exactly what it is.” “We had gone in to create serialized, 10-minute content and we happened to have done it just at the moment that Quibi started buying serialized, 10-minute content,” Lieber continues. This exists, doesn't it?’ We smiled and said, ‘It might exist.’ Part of the reason we were one of the first shows to go is that we had already done what they were doing and we had done it intentionally.” Meanwhile, other Quibi projects were full-on films that had to be adapted to make sense in Quibi’s minimalist world. “We pitched it with a level of specificity and at some point during that meeting, cocked their head and said, ‘Wait a second. “We decided to pitch to, not giving away that we'd already written it,” Lieber says. The pair had already been in contact with “a different network” that was also working on short-form episodes, and, as McDonnell explains, he’d always envisioned the show as more of a web series. “Just as Quibi was starting to buy, we were probably the only one in all of Hollywood who had already written what they were doing,” Lieber says. They found their answers not so much in the story they were telling but in the way they chose to tell it: through the kind of short, to-the-point episodes Quibi has specialized in since its launch in April.īut Don’t Look Deeper didn’t start out with Quibi in mind, despite it having been written in 10-minute increments. “What do we like about this? What is unique to our story that makes it worth telling even though it exists in this genre that lots of people have explored before?" he says. As McDonnell explains to SYFY WIRE, he and his co-creator found themselves grappling with questions about how to make the story unique from its contemporaries. Ultimately, Don’t Look Deeper is a story about identity, creation, and what it means to be human. It’s a tale that’s been told countless times, and which McDonnell and Lieber were determined to tell in a new way. And as Aisha dives deeper into her own troubled origin story, she’ll grapple with questions about her own humanity, and that of the AI around her.
Little do these AI know that Aisha, played by Helena Howard, has more in common with them than they think. Hyper-intelligent bots roam the hallways and do their level best to assist heroine Aisha in the near-future sci-fi drama from creators Charlie McDonnell and Jeffrey Lieber.
Advanced Artificial Intelligence is the norm in the world of Quibi’s Don’t Look Deeper.
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