Terror was, appropriately, a terror to shoot for The Boys season 2’s fifth episode.
Warning: Spoilers fromThe Boysseason 2, episode 5 are discussed in this article.
But he did it in season 2 for the fans.
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But Kripke says there were a lot more inspirations than you might think.
Now that you have, did your expectations match the reality?
ERIC KRIPKE:We were thrilled to give Terror to the fans.
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I’m really happy with how it turned out.
That dog stole the show.
Shooting it was every bit the clusterf–k I thought it would be.
I also remember the scene where Butcher walks down the street with Terror.
The dog would just not walk with Karl.
We got it for a couple of the wide shots, thankfully.
Poor Karl, trying to emote.
Look, Terror is a star but a really inconsiderate diva.
It was also cool to see theDawn of the 7come together.
Were there any specific inspirations?
There’s a lot of Michael Bay in there.
There’s a lot of old-school [Jerry] Bruckheimer in there.
I don’t actually think it’s written to sound like a superhero movie.
I think it’s written like a really bad 1991 Michael Bay action movie.
That’s how it feels to us.
The one thing I’ll say is writing bad dialogue is so much more fun than writing good dialogue.
What were your goals there?
We came up with that idea of an entirely destroyed apocalyptic New York.
It’s all just over the top and that style of filmmaking, just bombastic and more is more.
And then all that stupid s— about the flash drive and the dumb McGuffin of it all.
I’m assuming it was just scheduling issues that prevented that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We just couldn’t figure out the scheduling.
He was really, really funny.
He does this dick face: “I thought that take was great!”
His off-camera persona of “Greg” is a divo, which I thought was hilarious.
In a way that’s why we loved it.
He’s known for his cameos in these huge franchises.
It made sense that he made a cameo in ours.
Was that Ellie’s work?
I think that came out of the room and I don’t remember who came up with that line.
At the time, though, it might’ve been before even that movie came out.
It wasn’t the Joss Whedon backlash that there seems to be today about that movie.
That’s what that script needs.
It was all done with respect and love.
I think [comics writer] Garth [Ennis] was going after the comic book industry.
That’s a low, low number.
Maeve’s story line this season, too.
That image of her waving the rainbow flag.
It’s horrific but it’s also horrifically true.
