We chat with TheConsultant star Christoph Waltz and producers Tony Basgallop & Matt Shakman about the unique tone, what drew them to the project & how they adapted the novel for PrimeVideo
The Consultant introduces a mysterious man named Regus Pattoff, who steps in after the CEO of CompWare, a gaming app development company, is killed in a shocking turn of events. Pattoff, who introduces him as the consultant, begins running the company, which confuses the employees, but as new opportunities crop up for the struggling company and its employees, they begin to buy into the culture that Pattoff introduces.
Tony Basgallop: I think I was led, really, by the novel by Bentley Little. That had a very cruel sense of humor to it, a darkness that I always like to bring into my own work. So that was it really, I wanted to kind of match that style that he'd created, and it felt like we were a good fit. He's a very dark and twisted individual, and I enjoy kind of adding my dark, twisted nature on top of his dark, twisted nature. So, we were building on each other there.
Christoph, I absolutely am fascinated by this character of Regus Patoff, and you do a phenomenal job portraying him. I've never seen a character like this really. So how do you approach playing that character, and what did you want to bring to Regus that wasn't necessarily on the page? Tony Basgallop: I think the book, if I adapted the book directly as it is, it would've made a great 90-minute horror film. But obviously we were kind of doing a returnable TV series and 30-minute episodes, so the story within had to change. And also when I started writing this, we were in the middle of a lockdown, the whole pandemic thing had kicked off. We didn't know if anyone was ever going back to the office. So I had that kind of freedom in a sense.
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