Craig Mazin on Writing Chernobyl, the HBO/Sky Atlantic Miniseries | On Writing
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2019
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Craig Manzin discusses his experience researching and writing the historical drama miniseries Chernobyl, the question that inspired the show and what happens when people put lies above the truth.
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Have you watched the show yet?
Yes, I have watched the 4 episodes that have been aired.
Finish watching and i must "say",this is masterpeace!
BLOWN APART PUN INTENDED
Yes. This is a smart, sensitive show created by a smart, sensitive man.
Craig Mazin get ready for the Emmy 👏👏👏👏
give that man an Emmy
Aged perfectly
All participants did an A+ job on this miniseries. Best thing I've watched in decades.
This guy went from writing Scary Movie 2 and the Hangover parts 2 & 3, to Chernobyl.
How is that even possible???
teppolundgren $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$ $$$$$ What else
Hollywood likes to put people in a box. That way they can hedge their bets (as much as possible) in a business that is inherently a gamble.
@@fatimaa3054 reality is not a script
@@herbertsdottir9223 Script is a script ..two people can write about the same subject but their treatments of it will always be different.. there is a lot of books, movies and series about Chernobyl and other real disasters but none had this popularity.. this show had all the elements of good drama.
Difference between a paycheck and a passion project
Chernobyl is an excellent mini series. Well written, well acted and well directed. 👍👏
I really appreciate that it wasn’t over dramatized. It felt very authentic and respectful to the victims as well as the audience. I learned so much from watching this.
Except that babies can't "absorb radiation" or that the victims didn't emit radiation themselves. That last misconception was common at the time and led to much suffering, especially for surviving orphans form the incident who were believed to be radioactive.
But it is still a great show nonetheless
it was though, like the way the fireman looked near the end was completely unrealistic. Or him infecting his baby through his wife by hugging her, was completely untrue.
Chernobyl is the one of the best shows ever. The opening scene in episode 4 is... just.. I have no words. Just watch this series.
A masterpiece. They deserve every award coming their way.
Craig Mazin all I have to say is Thankyou, the most brillant series I have ever watched
What I love about him is that he's so forthcoming, from the process to the message... he even gave us his scripts!!! A true master here.
Huge respect for Craig Mazin. Great job man 👍🏻
Brilliantly written series. Questions and themes posed from the start of episode 1 come full circle in the last episode.
As Richard Feynman said: "Nature cannot be fooled." Thanks Craig. Amazing series.
The show will win ALL the awards. One of my fav shows in a long time.
This show was very impressive. Was much better than I was expecting it to be. Very well done.
I love you Craig, you are the reason why I write everyday, you demystified it all from an art to a craft. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🥃🥃🥃
Mad respect to this man, if you look at his past filmography you can see that any person can make a comeback!
I am a citizen of the country where the most man-made disaster occurred. I was born in the period of the collapse of the USSR, in 1990. We can say that the first generation of independent Ukraine. Thank you for showing the whole world - the truth that the communists have hidden so much time.
Exceptional man! Bravissimo!
you guys nailed it 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Can you believe the same guy wrote sequels to The Hangover and Scary Movie?
This man is an incredible talent. And it's a talent that exploded quite like RBMK Reactor 4, given that he was writing Hangover sequels and such movies for basically 20 years only to drop this masterpiece upon us. And now he's doing The Last of Us! Go Craig!
Brilliant!
Thanks for bringing the truth to the world
It radiates quality.
I see what you did there XD
Get ready for all the Emmys this year, absouluty deserved
He deserves an Emmy.
This miniseries deserves many oscars
Writer of Scary Movie 3 and 4, Hangover 2 and 3. Superhero Movie (whatever that is.) Not films known for their quality. And then suddenly Chernobyl and now Last of Us. Watching him speak, clearly an intelligent, empathetic person.
Give this man something shiny
This is such an incredible series, although leaving out the construction of the sarcophagus was a disappointment. It was such a feat of construction, it really deserves its own mini series.
I wouldn’t mind a “Chernobyl: The Aftermath” show. There is so much material to get one’s teeth into. If you read Svetlana Alexievich’s book, you’ll see what I mean.
I remembered his name at the end and had to Google him. How did he go from Rocketman and Scary Movie 4 to Chernobyl, I'll never know. Man, someone else asked the same question. I saw it after I wrote mine. These studios have teams of writers working projects sometimes.
lt's quite possible that his friendship with David Benioff & DB Weiss is the main reason his Chernobyl project landed at HBO. I think those guys had a hand in introducing him to Carolyn Strauss(Executive Producer Game of Thrones). And, the rest is history.
But, regardless of how he got in, the most important thing is that he can write and produce a great film. That's all that matters. Good for him.
@@davidwatson7196 This is true.
This guy is the definition of “play to your strengths”
A gret mind!
I've been listening to this man for years, so odd actually seeing him.
Same here
this man is a genius.
Круто, дякую
This man’s a genius.
u r a god
To all the people wondering how he was able to make Chernobyl after movies like Scary Movie:
Have you ever seen that slashy trash horror movie "Braindead" ?!
....Well, this was made by Peter Jackson (LOTR, The Hobbit)
Just be happy that surprises can happen and enjoy the results of creative people doing what they really want to.
He’s so easy to listen to.
Here because of aunty Donna and ihob
Lies! an RBMK reactor doesn't explode!
He is in shock get him out of here.
Dyatlov, log in please!
The STACK IS BURNING, THE CORE EXPLODED
Earth is flat too
"3.6 not great , not terrible"
Sooner or later
The Best TV Show ever
Craig should write a new series based on china and the corona virus!
HBO make all the best shows and docs
Not great but not bad *nod*
This guy should write a miniseries about the Holodomor
Автор большая умница конечно
Surely you're not suggesting Chernobyl didn't happen the way his mini-series tells it? Chernobyl is about as accurate a mini-series or film you will ever see.
I meant, that autors did a solid preparation work and as a result, this movie reliably depicts not only the nuclear disaster events, but a soviet period atmosphere in general. The latter is very unique for american movies.
Svetlana Alexievich should have gotten a credit on your TV show along with royalties, buddy.
For a show that wants to make telling the truth its theme, it also seems to tell many lies about what really happened...
G E N I U S
I was here for Chernobyl. I'm here for The Last of Us.
1 dislike by D&D
This guy should've written the end of GoT instead of Dumb & Dumber.
HBO The Last of Us
How’d you know? It’s to early to know stuff like that, it’s coming in around a year or 2
Russia decided to make their own version in answer to this show. I did not expect anything else besides this xD...
But this show will always be a great piece of art, an impressive monument of this event, and just a great tv-show, which has respect to both sides -- audience and the victims of Chernobyl.
The show is good however I feel that they put too little emphasis on a fact that the disaster was mostly if not for 100% caused due to flaw in design of this type of reactors, not understanding the true nature of the RBMK reactors and intentional hand over of the faulty plant for operational use. The flaw was identified 10 years before when an accident occured in the same type reactor in Leningrad and all the safety improvment recommendations were not put into action until the disaster. In 1983 when the fuel into reactor was loaded for the first time - the tests showed that the control rods increased core reactivity for few seconds, but the plant was approved as ready to operate.
People who didn't live in the shadow of the USSR will not understand that the events of the 26th of April 1986 were the result of Soviet propaganda to sustain communism system as a perfect world for always happy people, covered by pile of lies covering another pile of lies etc.
wino0000006 wait please tell me you typed all that after you watched the finale to the show
@@MichaelNgTzeWei
Yep - but nevertheless you have 1,5 episodes showing that Dyatlov and his crew are like 80% responsible for the disaster - while in fact it was just a matter of time when this could have happened in any other RBMK reactor.
It's like driving a truck for 500 km and finally reaching a destination - and you just park the truck for the last time knowing that pushing the brake will stop the truck. But instead it does quite opposite - accelerates the truck. So who is mostly responsible for that - a driver or a manufacturer?
@@wino0000006 I think the emphasis was good. They were going to adjourn the court but was told to let him speak. Putting the emphasis on what he had to say next, knowing full well he may be shot, and going forward with it. Then the meeting with the KGB director afterwards, leading to his eventual suicide. Seems pretty heavy on the emphasis.
Did you watch the last episode? This is exactly what they talk about
@@hijack69
No, I just watched 1 minute of first episode trailer.
Chernobyl= system of lies
>In one episode, three characters dramatically volunteer to sacrifice their lives to drain radioactive water, but no such event occurred. “The three men were members of the plant staff with responsibility for that part of the power station and on shift at the time the operation began,” notes Adam Higginbotham, author of, Midnight in Chernobyl, a well-researched new history. “They simply received orders by telephone from the reactor shop manager to open the valves.”
>Nor did radiation from the melted reactor crash a helicopter that flew too close, as is suggested in “Chernobyl.” There was a helicopter crash but it took place six months later and had nothing to do with radiation. One of the helicopter’s blades hit a chain dangling from a construction crane.
>“Get out! Get out of here!” Watson screams, as though every second the woman is with her husband she is poisoning her baby. But radiation is not contagious. Once someone has removed their clothes and been washed, as the firefighters were in real life, and in “Chernobyl,” the radioactivity is internalized and not contagious.
>Why, then, do hospitals isolate radiation victims behind plastic screens? Because their immune systems have been weakened and they are at risk of being exposed to something they can’t handle. In other words, the contamination threat is the opposite of that depicted in “Chernobyl.”
>Radiation is not the superpotent toxin “Chernobyl” depicts. In episode one, high doses of radiation make workers bleed, and in episode two, a nurse who merely touches a firefighter sees her hand turn bright red, as though burned. Neither thing occurred or is possible.
>“Chernobyl” is as misleading for what it leaves out. It gives the impression that all Chernobyl first responders who suffered Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) died. In reality, 80 percent of those with ARS survived.
0:30 you do a lotta research....APPARENTLY NOT LOL
He might not be right about everything but you can't just say this show was bad because there were some events that were exaggerated. It's still about a nuclear disaster not a casual problem.
@@starwarser007 normies want to ban nuclear power now. nice going
The helicopter thing was dramatized, yes, but
Why Lyudmila lost her child and also had second who was very ill? Why they were buried in zink caskets? Because firefighters themselves were contaminated, they tasted metal which means they inhaled radioactive particles which are impossible to wash off!
Also they were near the deadliest place on earth at the moment and it means that their clothes were highly contaminated too, there is a video on RUclips where someone found clothes of these firefighters and still, 30 years later, they were extremely dangerous to touch! That’s why the nurse could get radioactive burns(which aren’t burns really but you get what I’m trying to say)
Also official number of victim is still 31, we don’t know how many of the liquidators got cancer or were their children affected, there is no official statistics
Imagine how deadly it was if everyone who was on that bridge died
Don’t underestimate radiation
Mazin but you yourself lie. People tell me why liquidators didn't like the series? Most of the information is in russian, but please read the text from the Legasov tapes, he tells the opposite of what we have been shown.
LIAR!!!