![]() The idea of finding anyone else just seemed impossible, so she was really the first person we cast," Schechter says. "April was actually in the Titans Doom Patrol episode and she was just so fantastic. "Alan is like a literal two-dimensional character! We have cockroaches and farting donkeys and all these absolutely bananas things, but we keep it emotionally grounded and I think that was the hardest move to land with this team."īecause some members of the Doom Patrol were introduced in an earlier episode on Titans, the groundwork for building out the cast for the Doom Patrol series was already laid out. ![]() "We knew that it could work, but now I forget that that's not Brendan in the suit and that Matt is not underneath those bandages," Schechter says. When it came to creating this hilarious and very meta series, Schechter says that "casting is everything." They do encounter another Doom Patrol, or another early iteration of the Doom Patrol, but our main characters have a lot of coming to terms with who they are and who they were before they can really take any formative steps to becoming anything close to a team." "They don't even consider themselves the Doom Patrol for most of the season. "The idea of being a team doesn't even enter their consciousness," Carver says. Things only get weirder from there as Robotman meets the other members of Caulder’s household who couldn't care less about coming together to form a team to save the world. Niles Caulder (Dalton) could only save him by putting his brain into a metal robot. It's not always a journey that ends with a bow wrapped around it, not everything is going to have a happy ending."ĭoom Patrol begins when race car driver Cliff Steele (Fraser) wakes up from a crash to realize his body was injured so badly that Dr. "There's a real journey of self-discovery that’s happening over the course of the season amongst all the zaniness. "It’s about these five disparate individuals overcoming their own sense of otherness and self-loathing in some cases, really beginning to face why they're here, what has happened to them and what they're going to do about it," Carver reveals. I love your unlikely hero and that is that is certainly the case here."Įxecutive producer Jeremy Carver reveals that while there are a lot of problems that the Doom Patrol needs to solve over the course of the first season, the show is really "about finding themselves." It’s all these sidekicks and all these strange characters that don't fit in in the world coming together. "These are all characters that would maybe be like the sideshow or some sidekick. "This is about a group of misfits," shares executive producer Sarah Schechter. With an all-star cast that includes Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser, Timothy Dalton, Alan Tudyk, Diane Guerrero and more, this is going to be unlike any hero team-up you've ever seen before because of how un-heroic they all are. Doom Patrolmay be the second live-action series to launch on DC Universe, but it's already poised to be one of the most original superhero series on any streaming service or network. ![]()
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