Noah Hawley

owned it and i adapted it i think it's great but it's expensive right it's like a you know 70 million dollar drama thriller and they don't make those right now so i could beat my head against a wall for five years trying to get it made or i could go i'm gonna bide my time and and we're turning into a limited series yeah or turn it into a limited series yeah so what about other people's ideas let me shoot you my number real quick okay great

Yeah, it's interesting.

Lucy in the Sky, I did not originate that project.

Fox Searchlight brought that to me.

It was a script that Reese Witherspoon was producing.

The first draft, it's sort of like a dramatization of this true tabloid story about this...

astronaut who has an affair and, you know, drives across the country allegedly in a diaper, you know, to kidnap the, you know, it's a very tabloidy story.

And the first script was kind of a diaper joke script and I passed on it.

And then, you know, and then they came back to me with a script that,

began through magic realism to explore her psychological state of how she went from being that one person to being that other person.

And I thought that was really interesting.

And so I signed on and I developed it with John Henry Butterworth.

And then, you know, but in the end, I feel like

If I had had the idea and written it from scratch, it probably would have been a different movie.

You know, when you get a script, you kind of can't see past what the script was.

So, I don't know.

It was a $35 million magic realism astronaut movie, and it turns out people don't want to see those.

I think about it.

Like I said, I'm a New York City kid.

My dad had been an actor.