Reddit AMA Recap: Jon Gries Discusses Dream Corp LLC Season Three And FOX’s Napoleon Dynamite
The one and only Jon Gries was part of a Reddit AMA session where he talked about the new season, whether or not a fourth season is incoming, and why Napoleon Dynamite the animated series didn’t work. Furthermore, he was constantly getting peppered with questions as to the whereabouts of Venture Bros., which is odd, because he has nothing to do with that show. But we still got a lot of insight about Dream Corp LLC which kicked off with a stellar season premiere last night.
On how the show came together
Wow okay, so I had known Daniel Stessen and Kahlea Baldwin for a few years and had worked with them on a couple of Daniel’s short films. They wanted to cast me as Dr. Roberts and the network wasn’t into it but they knew that they wanted me in the show so they had me down to play Randy, if you can believe it (because there’s nobody that could play Randy other than Mark Proksch)! Eventually they were able to convince the network that I was the guy for Dr. Roberts and shortly after John Krasinski suggested Mark Proksch for Randy and the rest is history. I really believe that luck is preparation crossing paths with opportunity. You need to be ready for when that opportunity presents itself.
Is there any improv on Dream Corp LLC and why he thinks the animated series adaptation of Napoleon Dynamite didn’t work
First off I have to say, I couldn’t agree with you more about Dream Corp LLC. I think it’s probably one of the best shows on television (pure art). The scripts are air tight, very little improv. The same with Napoleon Dynamite. The production in S3 was much bigger and as a result, every day was an adventure. As far as the episode lengths, those are questions for Kahlea Baldwin and Daniel Stessen, but yes the episodes are ALL longer this season.
The Napoleon cartoon was fun but I really love the movie and prefer that story in live action. You never know going into a job if it’s going to be 6 episodes or 600.
On His Favorite Episodes
So hard to choose! I love Mary Lynn Rajskub’s episode “You Down with OCD?” in season 1 and Rupert Friend’s episode “Amnesia” and “The Krux” with Toby Kebbell
On the hardest episode to film this season
Great question. There are a lot of examples, but probably the Dream Chamber explosion in last night’s premiere is a big one. Any time you’re doing big stunts like that it takes a long time. And being true to continuity and a low budget the Dream Chamber is charred for the rest of the season.
Since the merger with ATT, everyone is waiting to see what happens. We have no idea what’s happening with season 4 and that seems to be the standard for every show on adult swim.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs