Robert Kirkman Breaks Down Invincible Season 3: Interview

Prime Video invincibleBased on Skybound/Image comedy from Walking deadRobert Kirkman Mark Grayson, 17, follows Stephen Yun, who, after he inherited the powers of his father, JK Simmons, to become a superhero hero. However, he soon discovered that demands would become one of the greatest defenders of the Earth than he could imagine.

In the third season, Mark, 19, is forced to face his past and future while discovering how much he will need to protect the people he loves. After his father leaves behind a young brother named Oliver (Lincoln Bodin), who also develops great powers, Mark finds himself taking over the role of the guide in addition to his other super duties, which include the imminent global threats of humanity.

Here, Kirkman breaks the Marc Association and Oliver Dark Links, and chose the narration on violence and carry the lessons learned from adaptation Walking dead.

Delivery date: Many of this season shows Mark's view of how superheroes behave without slaughtering. However, as his brother shows the ropes, Oliver tends to destroy threats by any necessary means – even humans. Talk about their dynamics as brothers this season.

Robert Kirkman: I think it is good to give Mark the largest possible number of external effects. One thing we dealt with in the second season was, “Did my father become?” And his fear of that. One of the results of the interaction with his father was that he brought Oliver home. Oliver has the same father, but from a foreign world. While Mark interacts with Oliver, he can see how Oliver sees the world for how Mark sees the world. Therefore, from an interesting point of view we can see how a person with great powers, who shares the same father, who lives in the same house can have a completely different view. For Mark, his feelings can be scary at times when he apparently agrees with some crazy things that Oliver says. For example, after Muller's twin was killed.

But an interesting note throughout the third season is that Oliver says very harsh things that make you worry. Then, by the end of the season, the completion of Mark's Arch is that it is more compatible with Oliver than it was before. Therefore, by the end of this season, you should be concerned about the place where Mark is heading in the fourth season and beyond.

The deadline: The big battle with Al -Fateh was the point of collapse of Mark, right? He was pushed to his borders.

Kirkman: Well, I think the real thing was about this unworthy barrage that Mark should experience at the end of the season. When he moves from PowerPlex to the alternative alternative to conquest, he is not sure of himself and is afraid that he will be on the road to approach more and more than OMNI-Man. With PowerPlex, it begins to see some of the damage it caused individually. PowerPlex is a kind of madness, but it caused him a huge amount of pain. Not direct, but he feels some responsibility for it. After that, by the end of Episode 7, when the invincible war occurred, he began to see more people in the world they saw the way PowerPlex does. Without preparation, without having any time to treat it or work through it in any way, the conquest comes and does more harm that Mark feels about it.

Fortunately, Mark is able to stop the opening. I believe that regretted not to kill Angstrom in fact when he felt that he had killed Angtereom and felt that he had done the wrong thing, along with feeling that he had defeated the invasion and would prevent him from doing anything like that again, as he changed Mark's mind a little and may push him to the dark side. But morals are a large part not only this season but the entire offer. We are trying to deal with what it will be to have the burden of responsibility for possessing this many power and how to manage yourself while you are trying to stay on the right path. As you see all these different options for what you can or you cannot do with these capabilities given to you. We are enthusiastic about how the width is truly transferred to some dark places.

Another aspect that I really enjoy in the show is that Mark is a young man. He makes errors, learn from these mistakes. He is a somewhat irregular character by design. This is something that we worked closely with Stephen Yun to develop it. We are constantly pushing this character to make bold data and then go against these phrases. Be very specific, “This is how things work.” Then go, “Oh, nonsense, this is not the way things work. I have more information now. Now I do this.” Since this is a kind of life that we all went through as a teenager, I think we all have very passionate arguments when we are very young about things that we really don't know. After that, you were like, “Oh, you were a kind of fool.” It is fun to see a character that goes through this same process while he is able to crush the planets.

Delivery date: Does it become more challenging or easier, while continuing to develop more seasons in transferring things from comic to the TV series?

Kirkman: This is the place Walking dead It is an enormous benefit invincible. with Walking deadI was on board with all sincerity with all the changes, but not necessarily attention and planning for the effects of the butterfly that came from these changes. So, in many cases with Walking deadI did not write the entire comic series when we were making the decisions of the first season in the first season. I did not know exactly where the story of the comic book would go. There were times like, “Yes, let's make it different. It would be fun.” But then you reach the ninth season of the season, and you have full stories of comic that no longer work because any of the work has not been prepared in advance.

Now, possess full invincible The series has ended and also the experience of dealing with this Walking deadThere are many decisions made invincible The first season- the third season, which was made only if we get the entire comic air conditioning, even when we go in the fifth season- the sixth season if we are lucky enough to do so, we know that the path has been developed, and things were planned. Therefore, we can do that. We go from one season to another, so the process of adapting the comic book to the show is not more difficult because we have done hard work to make sure everything should be.

Delivery date: Was Al -Fateh battle one of the most difficult animation that you had to do?

Kirkman: I mean, even some things that appear in the fourth season. This is also according to the design. We are trying to make the offer connected. Therefore, every season, somewhat, leads the season before it. It may be emotionally or physically. We will not be able to organize larger and larger battles every season until the offer becomes impossible. But we are planning aspects that raise every season, so that when you see the offer, you feel growth. And you get a feeling of intense risks that will constantly pressure the characters.

But yes, the combat of the conquest, from a productive point of view, was absolute. I mean, we had to get additional artists to enter additional scenes and work more seriously on smaller parts of the episode. You usually have four or five artists who deal with five to eight minutes. I think we have six or seven artists from the Board of Directors who were carrying out two to four minutes. Thus, we definitely had all the practical effort on the deck to make sure we got to the offer. I think it was moved forward in the production schedule to give us more time to work in the episode. Many different things behind the scenes have been done to make sure they were implemented. But from the moment when the scenario came, everyone was like, “Well. Let's see how we will withdraw this.”

Delivery date: Everyone always talks about how impressive is every season. I am curious: Is there any fear of hitting a threshold, although you are on a platform?

Kirkman: The content, I feel somewhat confident because we are fine Boys Because it continues to push the envelope every season. Thus, I get to watch this show and go, “We can do anything.” to invincibleAs long as there is an emotional punch and a narrative reason for its existence, I think anything is going. I am not really thinking about violence as we go away from the same violence? I am thinking, does this violence lead to the correct feelings that we are trying to create from the audience? When you see the conquest, he does the things you do in our ring, do you feel the right things that you should feel for Mark? For the people of the earth? For any number of people with a risk in this scenario. We are trying to push the emotional buttons in the story to make sure it has a great effect and a great weight so that you have this feeling.

With all my work, I always try to push feelings as far as possible. When you see people fighting, this is when you start feeling sympathy or fear for them. When the violence pushes beyond the place that people usually see, I feel that it enhances those feelings more. Because you are starting to see unrealistic things that you were not used to seeing. So, for me, it is always a matter of trying to push this circumstance so that the violence is surprised and that you never get the drug. Always make sure that there is an emotional reason for his existence, we hope to prevent it from being ever or, “well, another article appeared. Wonderful.”

Delivery date: What do you want to upset about season 4?

Kirkman: Thragg is thrown and will be in the fourth season. So, I will not reveal anything else unless you have been watching the show since the first season, you may be like, “hey, when there are more vertical things?” I will say that the fourth season has more things you may want. In the second season, we got the great Anissa things and then the story of Nolan. In the third season, we got an invasion, the story of Nolan, and the things that occur in space with Allen. In the fourth season, it really climbs. So, people who love this aspect of the show will definitely get more.

[This interview has been edited for length and clarity.]