Ethan

Oh, my.

The Necromancer.

Yeah, and... Careful with the pronunciation.

It's not the Necromancer.

Okay, so I totally forgot about that.

Yeah, but it all got worked into other parts of the movie, and it was fine to cut.

Okay, so here it is.

That could be its own story that could fit into the larger story.

Could we make something that was completely...

Faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys had already made and I started talking it over with my son Peter who's also a screenwriter and Gee, I wonder how he got that job Steven Yeah, I'm just fell right into that huh all right

would work, especially as a framing device for that story.

And it took me a few years to scrape my courage into a pile to give you a call.

But about two years ago, I did.

You liked it enough to talk to me about it.

And ever since then, the two of us have been working with

don't hate it I think Colbert has credentials to do this

I feel like they haven't made it clear what the movie is actually about yet, though.

On the prologue you described.

No, that's not what the movie is.

Oh, because that sounded interesting.