Initially, the plan was to keep it simple, with static panels and voiceover, but the animators at Proof were able to animate the mouths moving, no easy feat to nail in such a short time, so it ended up being more lifelike than the producers initially envisioned. "I'm sure I speak for a lot of people when I say it exceeded our expectations in terms of the finished product," Eisendrath said. And they're happy with how it turned out. And so with no idea of what went into making an animated show, they dove into making 20 minutes of animated Blacklist with only five weeks to do it. "And it just made us think, well, wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to actually animate the portions that hadn't been filmed?" They reached out to studios Sony and NBC, who supported the idea and hooked them up with an animation company called Proof. "In those conversations, we reminded ourselves that the show in many ways, even the live action version, is like a graphic novel," Eisendrath said, with larger-than-life villains and an antihero at the center. They considered a few possibilities, including a radio play-on-TV format, before deciding on animation. The Blacklist bosses told TV Guide about how the unexpected and unprecedented season finale came together, from idea to execution.Įisendrath said he and Bokenkamp realized quickly that their best option in lieu of their planned finale in Episode 22 was figuring out a way to finish Episode 19. The episode will bring the season to as natural a conclusion as possible, according to creator Jon Bokenkamp and executive producer John Eisendrath. The NBC crime drama was halfway through production on the 19th episode of Season 7 when the order came, but rather than scrap the episode and end the season on an incomplete note, the producers came up with a (graphic) novel solution: Half of "The Kazanjian Brothers," which airs May 15, is animated in a style the producers compare to a comic book. Like every other production, The Blacklist had to shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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