How the podcast Limetown sparked a cult following and became a scripted television series starring Jessica Biel (JessicaBiel)
Mina Lefevre's excitement over the project. "When Mina came in a few weeks prior to us taking the project to market, she really talked about what the platform was going to be and what type of content they wanted to pursue," says Mathes. "You look at a lot of the stuff they have, and what they're doing in the larger sense gave us a real desire to want to send more elevated fare to their platform.
We started thinking about the best kind of story to tell and what the medium is. Skip was talking about how he just read by Max Brooks. That felt like something we could do, an oral history of some larger historical event. One day I called Skip and I said, "A town disappeared." And he said, "Why?" And I said, "I don't know." It was basically a whole conversation around that.
When he first called me saying we should do a fiction podcast, that was pretty unheard of at that moment. And you know, it's funny, because they're called back to the oldest form of stories there is. Yes, radio dramas. At the time, there were over 200,000 podcasts, and all of them — with the exception of one — were nonfiction. It really was a novel idea at the time, and it was not something we ever thought could lead to other derivative forms, because this was pre-.
How has it been adapting the podcast for the show, and what's been the most difficult part of the adaptation process? Maybe not the hardest thing but the most important thing to bring from the podcast to the show was the tone. There are moments in that show that are unforgettable, and it's a very specific tone, that sort of hair-raising, off-kilter vibe that you feel throughout the six episodes in the first season.
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