Glen Zipper用“狗”第2季和“猫人”扩展了他的Netflix动物宇宙
Glen Zipper Expands His Netflix Animal Universe With ‘Dogs’ Season 2 and ‘Cat People’
在流媒体巨头Netflix在2018年首映其新的纪录片“狗”之后，执行制片人格伦·拉链（Glen Zipper）回忆起在犬犬妈妈和爸爸的社交媒体上收到很多爱的人 - 但他也在愤怒的推文中，为一场有关伴侣节目的愤怒的收到端，猫。三年后，当他准备在新的纪录片“猫人”的首次亮相时，他准备推出期待已久的第二季“狗”时，Zipper希望宠物父母之间的平衡与和平。我们为什么不能同时喜欢呢？虽然“狗”的第一个季节是拉链和执行制片人艾米·伯格（Amy Berg）的概念证明，他们想依靠“幸福”的故事（不打算）关于男人（和女人的）最好的朋友，这是一场演出的强烈抗议关于社交媒体上的猫，激发了拉链的想法，即这样的节目应该是自然的后续行动。但是尽管拉链说他爱狗和CATS同样 - 在生产之前与动物庇护所合作的经验丰富 - 他承认他最初不能为猫表演做一个想法。他的合作率要少得多。”他说。 “狗的摄像机与猫不这样做的方式接触，我们需要狗才能真正带有个性。我们正在寻找那些超级巨星的狗。有了“猫人”，猫将变得更加僵化 - 这是他们的世界，我们只是生活在其中 - 我们将不得不抓住猫愿意为我们提供的魔术时刻抓住罐头。 ”桑迪·坦（Sandi Tan），执行人员制作并指导“猫人”，以帮助他到达那里。她对Zipper的想法接触了有关猫的系列的想法 - 他指出的是一个“艺术性的”概念，而不是“猫人”的纪录片。 “它将有动画，它将是基于主题的，它将是就像大卫·林奇（David Lynch）遇到猫一样，”他解释说。尽管他喜欢这个概念，并说他们可能仍然做到这一点，但他们还没有准备好，所以他缩减了一些想法，决定专注于爱猫的人，同时仍然确保没有任何框架录像中没有猫科动物的朋友，并将棕褐色带入他的演出版本。这表明，桑迪正在做饭确实感觉更像是第二阶段或3阶段的表演。他不仅希望那场演出的语气比“狗”更幽默，这需要一定的态度，他还想击落“对这对它意味着什么不公平的负面刻板印象他说。Eir拥有，但他还将一些名人投入其中，最著名的是著名的猫说唱歌手Moshow在“猫人”上和NASA宇航员Leland Melvin上的“狗”上。已经病毒的人成为演出的一部分。 “邀请任何有影响力的人的人绝对不是优先事项。我们一直在寻找令人惊讶，令人兴奋，有趣和有趣的故事。意味着生产的暂停实际上只影响了最后一集。第2季的最后一集名为“保护者”，这是牧师在巴西街头照顾和寻找流浪狗的房屋的使命。相反Zipper说，在我们最重要的是，每个人都努力工作了两倍，我们为此提供了动力。 “一旦我们处于大流行中，我们就非常渴望和渴望将故事传给世界，因为我们都在寻找那种大吃一惊的人 - 我们都希望现在拥有这些快乐和快乐的故事。” Zipper说，不同的情节顺序不是归因于大流行，而是因为长达一个小时的“狗”的每个情节都“非常接近制作故事片”，它们的“密集”是多么的“密集”。 “有了'猫人'，因为我们认为30分钟是我们所讲的表演类型的更好格式，因此，击倒六个大流行或没有大流行的六个。”他和伯格都在计时大流行如何影响人们收养动物acro的意愿SS国家和世界。 Zipper说：“当然，当我们看到动物庇护所清空时，我们就[在一集中]中可以做的事情吐口水。”但是归根结底，他们选择不在任何一场演出中包括这种叙述。 “当我们来谈论一集甚至是简短形式的事情时，已经发生了很多事情。这些“狗”情节和“猫人”情节的特别之处是，您会看到整个旅程 - 从头到尾看到它 - 当您进入中间或第三幕时，那不是真的演出是关于什么的。因此，这就是为什么我们最终决定不朝这个方向发展的原因。就像在“猫人”中一样。除了“保护者”情节在“狗”第2季中，“它拿一只乡村狗”是另一集，旨在为犬只找到合适的房屋的重要性，集中在一位退伍军人上，决心将她在伊拉克与她一起带回家的小狗与她一起带回家。在“猫人”中，题为“上帝的小民族”的一集位于希腊岛上的猫保护区。第三次机会，我们会这样做。
After streaming giant Netflix premiered its new docuseries "Dogs" in 2018, executive producer Glen Zipper recalls receiving a lot of love on social media from canine moms and dads -- but he was also on the receiving end of irate tweets pressing for a companion show about cats. Three years later, as he prepares to launch the long-awaited second season of "Dogs" alongside the debut of new docuseries "Cat People," Zipper hopes there will be balance and peace among pet parents.
"Our message [is], 'Why can't we love both?'" Zipper tells Variety.
Still, it was a long and often uneven road to get these series ready to stream. While the first season of "Dogs" was proof of concept for Zipper and executive producer Amy Berg, who wanted to lean into "happy" tales (no pun intended) about man's (and woman's) best friend, the outcry of interest in a show about cats on social media sparked the idea for Zipper that such a show should be a natural followup. But although Zipper says he loves dogs and cats equally -- and had ample experience working with animal shelters prior to producing -- he admits he couldn't initially crack an idea for a show about cats.
"Making a show about cats was going to be more difficult because cats, let's face it, are far less cooperative," he says. "Dogs engage with the camera in a way that cats don't and we need the dogs to really pop with personality. We're looking for those superstar dogs. With 'Cat People,' cats are going to be more standoffish -- it's their world we're just living in it -- and we're going to have to catch as catch can with the magic moments that the cats are willing to offer us."
It took Sandi Tan, who executive produces and also directs "Cat People," to help him get there. She approached Zipper with an idea for a series about cats -- one that he notes was a "much more artistic" concept than the docuseries "Cat People" ended up being. "It was going to have animation, it was going to be theme-based, it was going to be like David Lynch meets cats," he explains. Although he liked that concept and says they may still do it someday, they weren't quite ready yet so he scaled back some of the ideas, decided to focus on the people who love cats while still making sure there wasn't a frame of footage that didn't feature a feline friend in it and brought Tan onto his version of the show for now.
"If Marvel has Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, I guess there's a Glen Zipper extended animal universe of phases for me, and that show that Sandi was cooking up really feels more like a Phase 2 or 3 show," he says.
Since Zipper saw the human counterparts as the way into "Cat People," casting became extra crucial. Not only did he want the tone of that show to be a bit more humorous than "Dogs," which required a certain levity around who was brought into the show, he also wanted to shoot down the "unfairly negative stereotype of what it means to be cat people," he says.
Balancing those two things could be a tall order on their own, but he also threw some celebrity into the mix, most notably with renowned cat rapper Moshow on "Cat People" and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin on "Dogs."
"That was just a silver lining to us," Zipper says of finding people who had already gone viral to be a part of the shows. "It was definitely not a priority to feature anyone that was an influencer. We were looking for surprising, exciting, fun and funny stories to tell."
Netflix greenlit a second season of "Dogs" in 2019. Zipper and his team began working on the four-episode season before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, which meant production pauses really only affected the final episode. Entitled "The Protectors," the last episode of Season 2 follows a priest's mission to care and find homes for stray dogs on the streets of Brazil. "Cat People," by contrast, was also greenlit ahead of the pandemic but its six episodes were made almost entirely during it.
"I became a COVID compliance officer myself to make sure that we were on top of everything, and everybody just worked twice as hard and we powered through it," Zipper says, noting they had to adjust how they did certain things but that they did not have to compromise what they did for safety regulations. "Once we were in the midst of the pandemic we were so eager and anxious to get the stories out to the world because it's that salve that we're all looking for -- we all want to have these happy and joyful stories now."
The different episode order, Zipper says, was not due to the pandemic but rather because each episode of the hourlong "Dogs" is "really close to making a feature film" with how "intensive" they are, he explains. "With 'Cat People,' because we thought that 30 minutes is a better format for the type of show we were telling, it's easier to to knock off six of those, pandemic or no pandemic."
While they were in production, Zipper admits he and Berg both clocked how the pandemic was affecting people's willingness to adopt animals across the country and the world. "Certainly when we saw the animal shelters emptying out, we spitballed about what we might be able to do around that [in an episode]," Zipper says. But at the end of the day, they opted not to include that narrative in either show. "A lot of it had already happened by the time that we came around to talking about what an episode or even like a short form thing about that might look like. And what's special about these 'Dogs' episodes and 'Cat People' episodes is, you see the whole journey -- you see it from beginning to end -- and when you're entering in the middle, or in the third act, then that's not really what the shows are about. And so, that's why ultimately we decided not to go in that direction."
The message about the importance of adopting animals and providing them homes filled with unconditional love is something that still sings out loudly in the second season of "Dogs," as well as in "Cat People," though. In addition to "The Protectors" episode of "Dogs" Season 2, "It Takes a Village Dog" is another episode dedicated to the importance of finding the right home for a canine, centering on a veteran determined to bring a puppy she finds in Iraq home to the U.S. with her. In "Cat People," an episode entitled "God's Little People" is set at a cat sanctuary on the Greek island of Syros.
"Whatever we can do from our position to support animals [and] encourage people to give these animals a second or a third chance, we'll do it," Zipper says.
"Dogs" Season 2 and "Cat People" Season 1 premiere July 7 on Netflix.
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