At the time, George just said ‘write them as big as you want, and we’ll figure it out later.’
We were all experienced television and feature writers, so we all kind of new what was theoretically possible on a production budget.
Just much bigger than what you would normally do in a television show.”
But we just went, ‘For this pass, OK let’s just take him at his word just to make it crazy and big’ and there was lots of action, lots of sets, and huge set pieces.