ONE arbre colline FANS. COM GOT AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH THE CREATOR OF OTH AND THIS IS WHAT HE HAD 2 SAYY
Hi, this is Don with BuddyTV and today I’m talking to Mark Schwahn, creator of One arbre Hill. There are a lot of One arbre colline fans at BuddyTV, so we asked them to soumettre some questions for you. I just wanted to go over some of those. People want to know if Mouth and Millicent are going to get serious suivant season.
Yeah, I feel like Mouth finally found a girl. Fourth season, fifth season, Mouth sort of drifted a little bit until we met Millicent, and it just felt so right to me, that couple. Obviously they’re pursuing their own dreams and ambitions, and I think when you’re young and you’re in your twenties, you’re trying to set up the architecture for what your life is going to be down the line. toi feel like if toi don’t do it right now, there may never come another chance to do it, in terms of career. I think that their storyline will be: can toi have your career ambitions and also be a couple, and what does it mean to your relationship if you’re chasing different things? But that’s a couple that gives me a feeling of sort of safeness and makes me comfortable to watch them together, and I like that for the audience and I like that for the show. That doesn’t mean they won’t have obstacles ahead of them, as all couples do on One arbre Hill, but fans will definitely see plus of them in season six.
There are a lot of fan favori characters that people would like to see back, like Rachel ou Tim ou Chase ou Whitey.
Is there any chance of any of those people coming back this season?
Yeah, there’s a chance that toi would see all of those characters -- well, I don’t know about Tim. I’m being sarcastic. We’re pretty early at it in terms of mapping out the entire season, but I would add Jake to that list, too. I’ve been talking to Bryan [Greenberg] about coming back, I don’t know if it’ll work out with his schedule and what he’s doing. I think the great thing about being in season 6 is toi have all of that architecture, all of that history to draw upon. I always felt like Rachel went away in not the best light when she disappeared, and I’d l’amour to check in with Whitey. I always think it’s great when we can see the return of some of these characters. We’d like to do that and we have some concrete plans to do it, but a lot of it is up in the air.
A lot of people want to know what happened to the theme song and if it will make a return appearance.
It’s interesting about the theme song. Not only is it costly -- and that never sort of drives what we do creatively, but I think fans don’t understand that there’s money on the table, tableau every time they hear the theme song. That sounds like a bullsh*t producer response, too, but that’s a part of it because every an our budget is pretty challenged. Knowing that, when I looked at the jump ahead, the four an jump, I felt like “I Don’t Wanna Be” was very much an anthem for their adolescent lives. It was very much about who am I going to be and who am I and who am I going to be someday. Not to mention that it was 42 secondes of screen time that I knew I could use for story. So a lot went into the decision to drop the theme song, it wasn’t done lightly. For Chad [Michael Murray's upcoming noir-themed] episode it would be fun to hear that theme song done in a plus time period relevant way. Never say never, but right now I think we’ll probably just go with the black card.
There were a lot of new characters introduced last season.
Is there anyone new joining this year?
We will meet some new faces along the way, sure. One of them is John Doe, who is playing Nick Wolfe, who may ou may not be Peyton’s biological father. And I think that that’s very much at the center of the storyline, is they expect him to be her father but he’s not very forthcoming as a character with that information. The question is why is that the case when he clearly made a choice to reach out to Peyton. So we plan to see John earlier than later in the season. We’ll see the return of Daphne Zuniga’s character, Victoria, which is really great. Above and beyond that, we will see some new characters. One of them is a character named Samantha, who is being played par Ashley Rickards. She’s a younger character, I always think it’s important to keep younger characters in the montrer while the montrer has aged. toi still have a young fan base that’s interested in those stories, and so Samantha is going to be a high school student that we’re going to meet early on and tell stories about her as well.
A lot of people want to know if An Unkindness of Ravens will actually be published as a tie-in novel ou anything like that.
We have talked about that and it hasn’t come together just yet, because somebody’s got to write it. If it’s going to be written, considering it was Lucas’s book and it introduced Lucas as an auteur fictionally, it’s got to be quality, it’s got to be a decent book. It’s not something where we just want to hire a ghostwriter and say, “Just do this so that it’s a piece of merchandise.” I would just want to make sure there is a reason to do it and that there's spin that we could put on it. We have talked about it though, so hopefully that’ll come to light. If it doesn’t, it wasn’t for trying, that’s for sure.
Is there any chance that either Haley ou Brooke will end up with another baby any time soon?
That’s also being talked about. I think Brooke, certainly we’ve planted the scenes for. Her storyline centers around what a family is and what a family can be considering hers was not what she had hoped for. And so I think that’ll continue to be at the center. If she ends up with Lucas, I think that they would l’amour to have kids. And if she doesn’t end up with Lucas, I think the idea of family is still very much at the forefront of her story. And we’ve actually, just so toi know, and I haven’t a dit this publicly to anyone else, we’ve talked about Nathan and Haley as well. What it would be like to introduce a baby, because with the four an jump the fans didn’t get to spend time with the baby with that couple, we jumped ahead to Jamie as a four-year-old. Yeah, all of that stuff is up for grabs.
Just one last question here.
Now, I know toi can’t tell us who Lucas invited to Las Vegas, obviously, but do toi think the fans will be happy with how that storyline plays out?
toi know Don, I really hope so. I know that there’s a danger in -- One of the staples of our montrer and the staples of télévision in general has been the l’amour triangle. For us it became a l’amour rectangle, which was my version and the show’s version of trying to turn that dynamic on its head a little bit. I think at the end of last season no one would have expected Lindsey, no one would have expected the introduction of someone else that Lucas was interested in and that Lucas loved. Whether the fans loved it ou hated it ou whether they felt like it worked, I always felt it was a way of challenging the audience and yet still giving them the montrer they sort of love. Obviously, I’m not stupid about this stuff and I don’t make these decisions lightly, I know that if Lucas picks one person, that changes the dynamic that the audience has been familiar with for a long, long time. The relationship and who Lucas picks will frame the season for a lot of fans. For the ones that are happy, it’ll be a great season. For the ones that wish he would have picked someone else, the season will suck. I would just urge them to look beyond that and look at what we’re doing as a show. I mean, when toi watch the first three episodes, it’s undeniable that this is still a relevant, risky, vers l'avant, vers l’avant thinking show. I think that this season is once again a really challenging, vers l'avant, vers l’avant thinking season of One arbre Hill.
WITH THE CREATOR OF OTH AND THIS IS WHAT HE HAD 2 SAYY
Hi, this is Don with BuddyTV and today I’m talking to Mark Schwahn, creator of One arbre Hill. There are a lot of One arbre colline fans at BuddyTV, so we asked them to soumettre some questions for you. I just wanted to go over some of those. People want to know if Mouth and Millicent are going to get serious suivant season.
Yeah, I feel like Mouth finally found a girl. Fourth season, fifth season, Mouth sort of drifted a little bit until we met Millicent, and it just felt so right to me, that couple. Obviously they’re pursuing their own dreams and ambitions, and I think when you’re young and you’re in your twenties, you’re trying to set up the architecture for what your life is going to be down the line. toi feel like if toi don’t do it right now, there may never come another chance to do it, in terms of career. I think that their storyline will be: can toi have your career ambitions and also be a couple, and what does it mean to your relationship if you’re chasing different things? But that’s a couple that gives me a feeling of sort of safeness and makes me comfortable to watch them together, and I like that for the audience and I like that for the show. That doesn’t mean they won’t have obstacles ahead of them, as all couples do on One arbre Hill, but fans will definitely see plus of them in season six.
There are a lot of fan favori characters that people would like to see back, like Rachel ou Tim ou Chase ou Whitey.
Is there any chance of any of those people coming back this season?
Yeah, there’s a chance that toi would see all of those characters -- well, I don’t know about Tim. I’m being sarcastic. We’re pretty early at it in terms of mapping out the entire season, but I would add Jake to that list, too. I’ve been talking to Bryan [Greenberg] about coming back, I don’t know if it’ll work out with his schedule and what he’s doing. I think the great thing about being in season 6 is toi have all of that architecture, all of that history to draw upon. I always felt like Rachel went away in not the best light when she disappeared, and I’d l’amour to check in with Whitey. I always think it’s great when we can see the return of some of these characters. We’d like to do that and we have some concrete plans to do it, but a lot of it is up in the air.
A lot of people want to know what happened to the theme song and if it will make a return appearance.
It’s interesting about the theme song. Not only is it costly -- and that never sort of drives what we do creatively, but I think fans don’t understand that there’s money on the table, tableau every time they hear the theme song. That sounds like a bullsh*t producer response, too, but that’s a part of it because every an our budget is pretty challenged. Knowing that, when I looked at the jump ahead, the four an jump, I felt like “I Don’t Wanna Be” was very much an anthem for their adolescent lives. It was very much about who am I going to be and who am I and who am I going to be someday. Not to mention that it was 42 secondes of screen time that I knew I could use for story. So a lot went into the decision to drop the theme song, it wasn’t done lightly. For Chad [Michael Murray's upcoming noir-themed] episode it would be fun to hear that theme song done in a plus time period relevant way. Never say never, but right now I think we’ll probably just go with the black card.
There were a lot of new characters introduced last season.
Is there anyone new joining this year?
We will meet some new faces along the way, sure. One of them is John Doe, who is playing Nick Wolfe, who may ou may not be Peyton’s biological father. And I think that that’s very much at the center of the storyline, is they expect him to be her father but he’s not very forthcoming as a character with that information. The question is why is that the case when he clearly made a choice to reach out to Peyton. So we plan to see John earlier than later in the season. We’ll see the return of Daphne Zuniga’s character, Victoria, which is really great. Above and beyond that, we will see some new characters. One of them is a character named Samantha, who is being played par Ashley Rickards. She’s a younger character, I always think it’s important to keep younger characters in the montrer while the montrer has aged. toi still have a young fan base that’s interested in those stories, and so Samantha is going to be a high school student that we’re going to meet early on and tell stories about her as well.
A lot of people want to know if An Unkindness of Ravens will actually be published as a tie-in novel ou anything like that.
We have talked about that and it hasn’t come together just yet, because somebody’s got to write it. If it’s going to be written, considering it was Lucas’s book and it introduced Lucas as an auteur fictionally, it’s got to be quality, it’s got to be a decent book. It’s not something where we just want to hire a ghostwriter and say, “Just do this so that it’s a piece of merchandise.” I would just want to make sure there is a reason to do it and that there's spin that we could put on it. We have talked about it though, so hopefully that’ll come to light. If it doesn’t, it wasn’t for trying, that’s for sure.
Is there any chance that either Haley ou Brooke will end up with another baby any time soon?
That’s also being talked about. I think Brooke, certainly we’ve planted the scenes for. Her storyline centers around what a family is and what a family can be considering hers was not what she had hoped for. And so I think that’ll continue to be at the center. If she ends up with Lucas, I think that they would l’amour to have kids. And if she doesn’t end up with Lucas, I think the idea of family is still very much at the forefront of her story. And we’ve actually, just so toi know, and I haven’t a dit this publicly to anyone else, we’ve talked about Nathan and Haley as well. What it would be like to introduce a baby, because with the four an jump the fans didn’t get to spend time with the baby with that couple, we jumped ahead to Jamie as a four-year-old. Yeah, all of that stuff is up for grabs.
Just one last question here.
Now, I know toi can’t tell us who Lucas invited to Las Vegas, obviously, but do toi think the fans will be happy with how that storyline plays out?
toi know Don, I really hope so. I know that there’s a danger in -- One of the staples of our montrer and the staples of télévision in general has been the l’amour triangle. For us it became a l’amour rectangle, which was my version and the show’s version of trying to turn that dynamic on its head a little bit. I think at the end of last season no one would have expected Lindsey, no one would have expected the introduction of someone else that Lucas was interested in and that Lucas loved. Whether the fans loved it ou hated it ou whether they felt like it worked, I always felt it was a way of challenging the audience and yet still giving them the montrer they sort of love. Obviously, I’m not stupid about this stuff and I don’t make these decisions lightly, I know that if Lucas picks one person, that changes the dynamic that the audience has been familiar with for a long, long time. The relationship and who Lucas picks will frame the season for a lot of fans. For the ones that are happy, it’ll be a great season. For the ones that wish he would have picked someone else, the season will suck. I would just urge them to look beyond that and look at what we’re doing as a show. I mean, when toi watch the first three episodes, it’s undeniable that this is still a relevant, risky, vers l'avant, vers l’avant thinking show. I think that this season is once again a really challenging, vers l'avant, vers l’avant thinking season of One arbre Hill.
They fell in l’amour and let them be in love. Their l’amour is as strong as jack and rose on the Titanic. Lucas loves her and he would still be with her if he knew how she felt about him. Lucas l’amour her so please let him l’amour her. She wrote 82 letters over the summer one evrey day. She never mailed them because she was afraid to get hurt like last time. He forgave her for being with someone else. They were in love. They had trust, caring and happines in their relationship. People only look at brooke and say shes a whore. But SHE LOVES HIM!!! She gave him her cœur, coeur and trusted him with it. She loves him like he loves her. She was hurt from the first time and the seconde so let her have her l’amour back.
