Friday 19 July 2013

  • part 1 Sherlock SDCC NERD HQ panel
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  • q: impression of American reaction to Sherlock?
  • Mark: A bit subdued I think! It is amazing. already. it is incredible. we just did the big panel in there and the response from the little clip we showed is amazing. Very very pleasing.
  • Sue: It is quite nice - from filming . we are left alone a bit and all of a sudden when we see a whole lot of people it is nice when they see a clip.
  • Mark: We actually feel a bit guilty because we aren't finished. usually this is when we are all done
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  • q: did you decide to bring Andrew Scott back because of his performance or because you had more of a story to tell?
  • Moffat: HE IS DEAD! Shot himself in the brain stem. He is dead. Nothing can survive that! The human body can survive almost anything else but not the brain stem. He is dead. we brought him back in to be a dead body, because we needed a body. It was actually cheaper to get Andrew Scott instead of a mannequin.
  • Mark: In answer to your question.
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  • q: Where are some of the challenges of telling Sherlock in modern day?
  • Moffat: Challenges are trying to find an equivalent. Some things fell into place very easily. He was not going to smoke a pipe he is only 33 years old. He would look like an idiot! So we thought of the nicotine patches. Nobody ever asks us about it now. That was the big issue at the beginning.
  • Moffat: nobody has mentioned the updates in ages. It is now just Sherlock Holmes. Nobody mentions that with Bond. bond is from the 50. it has become a background issue now.
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  • q: In the pilot, Sherlock, in my opinion, smiled a little bit more and was more personable and wore jeans and was a bit more casual. When we got to SiP - he was wearing suits a bit more distant, a bit more not caring. Was that a conscious decision that you moved into that direction or was it just happenstance that it was different?
  • Mark: I can't remember. ... I hated his jeans.
  • Sue: They crinkled, didn't they?
  • Mark: I just thought we should make him wear suits more.
  • Moffat: He was smiling a bit more because he was new in the role! So SiP was third in filming and BC was so much more into the part then! I think he got more confident. There is an natural thing of the actor wanting to charm the audience. Once BC discovered his charm was in being rather mean, he went for that.
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  • q: Got question.
  • Mark: I don't know what I got myself into.
  • q: can you reveal anything?
  • Mark: no! I am going to be in it.
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  • Zach: please stand!
  • Sue: just so we can see everyone's t-shirt.
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  • q: in the original stories SH travelled a lot.
  • Mark: going to New Zealand?
  • q: any travelling on Sherlock/DW soon?
  • Moffat: Everyone is worried about Sherlock moving away from London. It is such a London show .. shot in Cardiff, that we worry abt him moving away. So maybe, if there was a good plot and a strong reason for it and you make it funny and interesting that you deposit SH in a place that is not his natural habitat. As for DW: he travels in place and time! He has been in America, In Venice, in Croatia! going into another country shouldn't be a big deal.
  • Mark: We often think about travelling though. Especially in winter. Going some place nice. Russia! the only place that is colder than Cardiff.
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  • q: most fun you ever had on set?
  • Moffat: when Benedict fell over. possibly one day available as a DVD extra or just of you come around my house. Benedict in the sheet. he just fell over. His arm trapped and he fell like a tree. And everybody responded to our leading man falling onto his nose ... by falling around laughing at him! He could not moved! Was trapped by the sheet. Like. A. Tree.
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  • q: writing process?
  • Moffat: What does it say on your t-shirt?
  • q: MOFFAT!!!
  • Moffat: I am being hailed by breasts. I wanted to check if it was really happening.
  • - writing process -
  • Moffat: yes, sorry I was distracted. I get up in the morning and can't think of anything else but writing. Mark has a quote by Brian Clemens about that.
  • Mark: arse to seat, pen to paper ... I forgot! just sitting down and going at it till you stop.
  • Sue: the process between the two of you is quote specific how you plan the next series.
  • Moffat: we just meet up and chat. geeking out. that doesn't feel like writing. once or twice we sat in a room and wrote something together. Mostly passing notes.
  • Mark: stories we might do, etc comes from conversation: wouldn't it be great if, etc. this year is different - because Sherlock is coming back and we had to work from there.
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  • q: As a sherlock-ed mother - I have to make this costume for Halloween - why is the red thing on his coat?
  • Mark: I can tell you this Ray Holman who was the 1st costume designer on the pilot bought it from Belstaff and he wanted to put this signature thing in. And we like it because it reminds us of "The Scarlet thread of murder" which is a great Victorian thing.
  • Sue: Benedict said the other day it was his ...
  • Mark: oh did he? Benedict's long campaign to acclaim .... for everything. Dame Benedict!
    • part 2 Sherlock SDCC NERD HQ panel
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    • q: question I ask at all panels: do you read the fanfiction for your own shows?
    • Mark: I can't hear you.
    • Moffat: we write the fanfiction
    • Mark: he means the series
    • Moffat: ... AND the porn!
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    • q: given that Martin and BC's schedules are becoming more busy since they are becoming multiple pop culture icons. How do you see it influencing any further series?
    • Mark: it is (british accent) schedule!
    • Sue: for three shows we need about 4 months. whether we cut it up or not. the thing is: they need to want to do it. we have to find the blocks.
    • Mark: the brilliant thing is as we do 3 every 18 months it is good time for people.. well martin and benedict to go off and do films. it is a good format, really.
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    • q: technology included in Sherlock. Any more science fiction like technology in the next series?
    • Moffat: In the original stories he is at the cutting edge of technology. My god he has got a microscope in his own flat. You want to limit the technology. You don't want anyone to say: Sherlock Holmes is solving it because he has better technology. He hasn't. He has descent technology and a scuzzy flat and can still solve cases better than you. So you don't want to take it too far into that area I think. Unless it looks really cool and we change our mind.
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    • q: I feel really bad, I don't have a shirt.
    • Moffat: MY GOD!
    • q: before the show it seems like there was always the perception that Watson was taller than Sherlock. Was that an issue in casting?
    • Moffat: there has never been ... well ... until Nigel Bruce ... but they tried to conceal the fact. generally speaking Holmes is the tall one and Watson the little one. Which is what we got. I mean I wouldn't go as far as The Hobbit.
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    • q: any reason why you chose to do the series as a mini series rather than DW length?
    • Mark: we were going to do 6 hour long episodes. Largely bc of the success of Wallender...
    • Sue: yes I just called them up and asked if they would mind doing three 90s - do you think you can do that?
    • Moffat: We were actually at Matt Smith's first DW reading and you messaged us and said the BBC will green-light it if we do 90 min. And ... why were you even asking us? Just yes. We'll figure out a way to do it. Such are the ways of art.
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    • q: if you stop writing and producing, no Mycroft- play anyone in Sherlock Holmes- who would you play?
    • Moffat: Sherlock Holmes. I wouldn't be very good at it. And I am little and fat. So people would be a little bit upset, But I would be very happy they would have to find a real midget Hobbit.
    • Sue: Mrs. Husdon.
    • Moffat: no you wouldn't
    • Sue: molly?
    • Moffat: Irene Adler?
    • Mark: Baron Gruner in the Illustrious Client. Just commissioned it.
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    • q: will we see him mourn? Will we see part of Mycroft mourning?
    • Mark: There is a scene we shot where I go to the grave and laugh hysterically. That's my favourite scene.
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    • q: what inspired the Sherlock blog?
    • Moffat: It was your idea.
    • Mark: trying to find equivalence. we were having lunch at the Criterion and we were talking about how we would translate certain things. So Doctor Watson writes fro Strand Magazine So I though he should have a blog. There is always a modern version. back telegrams, now text messages. It was the modern version of Doctor Watson writing up the stories.
    • Sue: We have a writer, poor thing. in their script they put stuff like: the geek interpreter or the aluminum crutch and then poor Joe has to make the story, fit it around the titles.
    • Mark: and then we can't do it because it's been in the blog.
    • part 2
    • part 3 Sherlock SDCC NERD HQ panel
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    • q: Sherlock's family life. Will we see his mother? Maybe delve into his early life?
    • Moffat: Hmmmmm.
    • Mark: We are not telling you. You will have to wait and see.
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    • q: Mycroft smarter than Sherlock. Will Sherlock acknowledge that?
    • Mark: There hasn't been much of an opportunity. Lilo vs. Sofa. A few little hints.
    • Sue: I am not sure that Benedict likes that.
    • Mark: He just can't be bothered.
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    • q: Japanese Manga - any plans to adapt it into other media?
    • Sue: couple of people asking. We are looking at it.
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    • q: hat.
    • Moffat: We like that he hates the hat. Joke ripped off from Billy Wilder. "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes".
    • Mark: If Sherlock were to become famous in the tabloid society they would always use the same bloody picture. He becomes Hatman. By the time he is 50 he will be smoking a pipe and be in black and white.
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    • q: 3 ppl who were supposed to take out Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson and John - Is that Moran. Is that what you are going for?
    • Mark: Wait and see.
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    • q: Commentary SiB - Moriarty and brother share same Christian name - so will we see more?
    • Mark: SACD continuity errors. We are being mischevious by saying it means something but ... Andrew IS Moriarty and HE IS DEAD, I'm afraid.
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    • q: what project would you work on if you had a blank cheque?
    • Mark: I would pay those people to shut the fuck up (talking abt the loud music ppl int he background)
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    • q: of all the eps - which one were you most excited to film?
    • Mark: SiB - is our best one. It is beautiful. it is the one that really feels like a film. All the beats. Very satisfying, very moving it's great.
    • Moffat: When we first started on the series itself. When we started to see what can be done with the camera! When we saw that text on the screen and I didn't think he could do it. And I walked past the cutting room and loved it. We didn't think it could be a major hit but maybe 3 million viewers and an award from Poland.
    • Sue: least favourite location: the hallow from Hounds and the Morgue.
    • Mark: yes, which is not in this series. Molly becomes a travel agent. There is a Morgue in a place in Wales. A really nice morgue. Well, morgues are not very nice. We got into a snow storm and got help from the DW crew and we started again the next day And Martin .. slipped on ice...
    • Sue: No he slipped on his porridge.
    • Mark: right and then someone got stomach flu .. we were going back and forth!
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    • q: pressure of success? stress?
    • Moffat: it is actually really nice. that experience of it being a hit is joyous. Nick Hurran was looking at the old shows and he saw BC with his coat walking across Trafalgar and he asked why not now. It is not possible back then they wuld point and laugh about his name. We cannot do this anymore today. When now looking at Martin and BC in character you are looking at icons. International movie stars .. damn! A lovely, joyous experience.
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    • host: one more question. maybe two.
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    • q: zeitgeist of Sherlock- good challenge to see others writing Sherlock as well?
    • Mark: there is always two! we heard they were doing the RDJ Sherlock when we started the pilot. We live in a world where everything is constantly repeated. All you can hope it being true to your own version. And I hope people can recognize that we love Sherlock Holmes. We didn't think we could get an easy commission. We truly love it.
    • Sue: And you have to stick to yourself. Ignore the others. We didn't know what it was going to be about.
    • Moffat: you cannot go a week without Sherlock Holmes on television! You have to take your own approach at it.
    • Mark: "Holmes of the movies" book - some I have never heard of! Tv movie wil William Shatner! It is the weirdest thing! Baker Street looks like and Italian railway station! Shatner in his prime! I recommend it.
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    • q: how long does it take you to actually write an episode and is aclohol involved?
    • Moffat: from the day I start to slightly after the beginning of the day of pre-production.
    • Sue: it is NOT slightly.
    • Moffat: I wrote Scandal in 3 weeks. Alcohol is not involved in writing it cannot be. That's why drinking is soooo good. I just get more wound up and stressed and miserable and the moment I have had a drink everything I have ever thought of is brilliant [...] and I am so much prettier.
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