Development and Production
The idea for adapting Maniac Mansion into an episodic television series originated with LucasFilm animators Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. After having played the game and developed the idea, they pitched the concept to George Lucas, who also saw the project's potential. LucasFilm teamed up with The Family Channel (now ABC Family) and Toronto-based production company Atlantis Films and began to expand the idea.
Atlantis contacted Eugene Levy, former writer and cast member of SCTV, and offered him the chance to help create and produce the show. Atlantis' original treatment depicted Maniac Mansion as a darker horror-comedy in the vein of The Munsters, but after Levy rejected the premise, he was given the creative control to shape the show in his own image. Levy recruited a number of his former SCTV alumni and developed the show into a less supernaturally-oriented family sitcom.
Read more about this topic: Maniac Mansion (TV Series)
Famous quotes containing the words development and, development and/or production:
“Theories of child development and guidelines for parents are not cast in stone. They are constantly changing and adapting to new information and new pressures. There is no “right” way, just as there are no magic incantations that will always painlessly resolve a child’s problems.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“Information about child development enhances parents’ capacity to respond appropriately to their children. Informed parents are better equipped to problem-solve, more confident of their decisions, and more likely to respond sensitively to their children’s developmental needs.”
—L. P. Wandersman (20th century)
“The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.”
—Ernest Gellner (b. 1925)