Emily Longeretta Derek Haas is redefining the word “multi-task.” The executive producer and co-creator of “Chicago Fire” began showrunning his second show last year with the launch of “FBI: International,” the first Dick Wolf series shot entirely out of the country.During a phone interview with Variety, Haas — currently on set in Budapest — explains that he’s been on location four times since the show began production.“We travel around a lot.
We’ve shot in the Swiss Alps, Paris, Prague. So we can usually send a crew for a couple of days, and we strategically write it so that maybe just a limited amount of our cast is in those locations at any one time,” the executive producer explains. “It’s really easy here.
It’s not like in the United States where you’ve got to go find another crew. Instead, we can just branch out for a day or two.
Everything’s either a really easy flight or you can actually take take the train to Prague.” Based in Los Angeles, Haas admits that the time difference is the biggest challenge, since it seems like “a 24-hour production is going on” with Chicago and Budapest being seven hours apart.“With ‘Chicago Fire,’ you might have an idea for a new scene that is going to shoot the next day and I can just quickly email pages.
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