Noah Hawley

And if I can time it to a kid's summer vacation, it's easier.

And if not, we try to have a two-week rule.

But yeah.

can't come back from Thailand for a weekend, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I mean, luckily, these were both sort of incoming calls.

I had written a couple of pilots for FX.

I knew them.

I was in talking to them about something else.

They had optioned Fargo as a TV show.

Joel and Ethan had signed on, and they'd said, if we like the script, you can put our name on it, and if not, you know where to send the check.

So the first process was to sell FX and to go through that process and write a script, and then we sent that first script to Joel and Ethan, and that was when I met them.

Yeah, they wanted to make a TV show out of it, but they also said, do you think we could do it without Marge?

Because how could you ever top Frances McDormand, right?

And I said, well, first of all, everyone else is dead or in jail.

All right, well, that's interesting.

If you're adapting the movie without actually any of the characters in the movie...

then what are you doing?

And I said, look, it's not a TV show because the movie says it's a true story.

And at the end of it, she's seen the craziest Coen Brothers case and tomorrow's a normal day and she's got two months left to have the baby and he got the three cent stamp.

And you know what I mean?