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Kitsis and Horowitz sat down with Rolling Stone talk about fairy tales, Easter eggs and getting Iggy Pop to voice a druggy caterpillar.
You've had two great seasons of Once Upon a Time already. What can fans look forward to in season three?
Kitsis: I think what we're really excited about in season three is that we're on an adventure to Neverland and we've got the Fairytale Avengers off to battle an evil Peter Pan and save Henry. We're very excited for people to see Neverland, meet Peter Pan, and we think the show is going in a really fun, magical and yet emotional direction. We're doing the seasons in two this year. We're writing eleven episodes in the beginning and eleven in spring, so this first section is Neverland and we're really excited about it.
Were you guys nervous about making Peter Pan evil?
Horowitz: Honestly, we're nervous about everything, but that's sort of our approach to storytelling. We like to find ideas that excite us and, if they make us a little nervous, then we head toward that rather than away from it. But as for Peter Pan being evil, our Peter Pan is not, as you'll see, a black-and-white creation of good and evil, just like we like to think all of our characters aren't black and white. What we're excited about is peeling back the layers on our version of Peter Pan so you can understand why he's doing the things that he's doing, starting with taking Henry from our heroes.
Kitsis: We always try to put our own twist on it so, for us, it wouldn't be fun to just do another version of Peter Pan – just like last year, our Captain Hook is a lot different than other Captain Hooks.
Without going into spoiler territory, we know we're going to see Peter Pan and Neverland as well as Ariel, and obviously there's the Once Upon a Time in Wonderland spinoff happening. Any other characters or fairy tales that might be weaved into this story?
Kitsis: We're going to be seeing Tinker Bell and we're going to be doing a version of the Pied Piper.
Horowitz: As well as continuing to explore Robin Hood.
Are we going back to Wonderland at any time, like in previous seasons, or are you going to leave that to the new series?
Kitsis: We're going to leave that the new series.
Horowitz: Wonderland will be strictly the domain of the new series. You may see something familiar from Once on Wonderland, but really, the intention is that both of these shows will be their own separate entities.
Kitsis: They exist in their own universes.
Horowitz: The stories that are taking place on each show are not dependent upon each other.
Kitsis: Yeah, we don't want to overwhelm the viewer.
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You've had two great seasons of Once Upon a Time already. What can fans look forward to in season three?
Kitsis: I think what we're really excited about in season three is that we're on an adventure to Neverland and we've got the Fairytale Avengers off to battle an evil Peter Pan and save Henry. We're very excited for people to see Neverland, meet Peter Pan, and we think the show is going in a really fun, magical and yet emotional direction. We're doing the seasons in two this year. We're writing eleven episodes in the beginning and eleven in spring, so this first section is Neverland and we're really excited about it.
Were you guys nervous about making Peter Pan evil?
Horowitz: Honestly, we're nervous about everything, but that's sort of our approach to storytelling. We like to find ideas that excite us and, if they make us a little nervous, then we head toward that rather than away from it. But as for Peter Pan being evil, our Peter Pan is not, as you'll see, a black-and-white creation of good and evil, just like we like to think all of our characters aren't black and white. What we're excited about is peeling back the layers on our version of Peter Pan so you can understand why he's doing the things that he's doing, starting with taking Henry from our heroes.
Kitsis: We always try to put our own twist on it so, for us, it wouldn't be fun to just do another version of Peter Pan – just like last year, our Captain Hook is a lot different than other Captain Hooks.
Without going into spoiler territory, we know we're going to see Peter Pan and Neverland as well as Ariel, and obviously there's the Once Upon a Time in Wonderland spinoff happening. Any other characters or fairy tales that might be weaved into this story?
Kitsis: We're going to be seeing Tinker Bell and we're going to be doing a version of the Pied Piper.
Horowitz: As well as continuing to explore Robin Hood.
Are we going back to Wonderland at any time, like in previous seasons, or are you going to leave that to the new series?
Kitsis: We're going to leave that the new series.
Horowitz: Wonderland will be strictly the domain of the new series. You may see something familiar from Once on Wonderland, but really, the intention is that both of these shows will be their own separate entities.
Kitsis: They exist in their own universes.
Horowitz: The stories that are taking place on each show are not dependent upon each other.
Kitsis: Yeah, we don't want to overwhelm the viewer.
Source: Full Article @ Rollingstone
