The Apple TV+ series Severance earned a total of 14 Emmy nominations including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Writing For a Drama Series (Dan Erickson), Outstanding Production Design (Jeremy Hindle, Nick Francone, Angelica Borrero-Fortier, and Andrew Baseman), Outstanding Music Composition (Theodore Shapiro) and Outstanding Directing For a Drama Series (Ben Stiller).From all the accolades, it’s surprising that the project took years to come to fruition, as did finding the perfect tone for the show which was born after assembling the perfect group of creatives who trusted their instincts along the way.Contenders TV: The Nominees: Deadline’s Complete Coverage“It was a long, long period from the time we first got Dan’s script to the time we were in production—it was a number of years.
A lot of the time during the process we didn’t even know if we were ever going to make it,” Stiller said during the show’s Contenders Television: The Nominees panel. “As in development a lot of the time, you have an idea or a project you’re thinking about, and you go through these steps along the way.
For Dan, it was his first time doing that; thinking through if this would be a series as the story went on, what would it be?
In terms of solidifying the tone, I don’t think that happened really until you finally are putting it together. There are so many elements that can affect that, and you have an idea in your head of what you think it is and then you take your best guess with what feels right then it becomes what it is through the editing, production design, and the actors, especially, who really imbue it with this reality and then you feel it.
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