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Loading ...Yesterday’s post enlightened viewers on the genesis of the first two episodes of season 2, but if you’ve ever wondered how the musical episode came to be? What about that 80’s montage, or “Getting’ High In Hyrule?” All these questions AND MORE will be answered by creator Sandeep Parikh on today’s edition of Legend Of Neil Director’s Commentary.
Legend of Neil, Season 2, Ep. 3 — The Musical
“Ahhh the musical. We turned this into a musical episode because… Tony and I and the Atom folks felt that it was the weakest episode. Actually we sort of volunteered that, and then I jokingly said while on a conference call with Megan O’Neill, Peter Ignacio and Scott Roesch from Atom, that we should just turn it into a musical. They said “GREAT IDEA” then we had two weeks to write a musical, which Tony and I have never done before in any capacity. Needless to say, I pooped bricks for a week and had absolutely no idea how it would come out. This is why I surround myself with ridiculously talented people, thank the Gods (I was raised Hindu and I read way too much fantasy to believe there’s only one God).
So, the Fairy song, yes it’s raunchy as all hell, and yes, Felicia was a bit nervous about rolling with the lyrics. At the same time, I knew (and secretly deep down I believe she knew) that once she got rolling with it she would just own it. She’s got a potty mouth when improvising, which is how I knew her originally and why I always wanted her to play the fairy. Such dirty words from such a sweet girl, how can that not be funny? Answer: it can’t”
“The 80’s song for the montage was … incredibly random. Really the whole concept of an 80s montage came about because our editor Todd Roy though it would be funny to cut it with cheesy transitions and set it to a crappy 80s song, which he chose Fight for Love from Commando as temp track. We all fell in love with that cut and so we looked into what it would take to license that song but it was a bit out of our price range. So then Houston Haynes our sound mixer gave it a stab and really did an amazing job sort of blending Fight for Love with Don Henly’s Dirty Laundry. And then Tony and I just decided to improv lyrics over it at the sound studio and voila, “Gettin High in Hyrule” came to be.”
There you have it folks, yet another glimpse at what it takes and who it took to produce the Legend of Neil. Stay tuned for the next two commentary posts, and be sure to check the first installment in this series.
