[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the show. That's what makes it unique, that's what makes… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it or get it. They didn't understand or have a knowledge of what we were trying to do.… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about… — Miles Millar Copy Share
Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requirement. — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all… — Miles Millar Copy Share
I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television,… — Miles Millar Copy Share
People want to get immersed and lost in a world. They want to lean in and figure it out, and that's true of both… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see the people who embraced it immediately and understood it and got into it. They have tracked the characters through the six episodes, so it felt that now we can launch into… — Miles Millar Copy Share
Also, when we did "Smallville," we didn't have an opportunity to interact with people who watched the show. And see what they had to… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
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