AlexanderKaraszewski

What's wrong with it?! It's friggin' funny!

Here's God's Truth: The test screenings were insane. The audiences SCREAMED with laughter for 85 minutes. But then we couldn't give the film away. :(

None. The book is ridiculous.

We've tried not to inject our personal opinions, because it's not the point of the show. We're not retrying OJ. The point of the show is, why did he get off? We packed Episode 1 with lots of strong evidence against him. It's pretty damning. But then, over the next 9 episodes, you'll see how the Defense, as well as everything swirling around the case, destroyed this apparently rock-solid conviction.

It's a hell of a great story! It's epic. It's got gigantic themes and larger-than-life characters. But we would never have done it as a movie -- there's no way to fit everything in. It just would have been the Greatest Hits. 10 hours let us tackle so many themes... race and the police... celebrity culture... gender politics... the beginning of the 24-hour news cycle... the transformation of a trial about two victims into a trial about the police... so much...

We did a million hours of research! Toobin was our principal source... but EVERYBODY in this trial wrote one, two, three books. We tried to read everything, to get everyone's point of view. We also found an insane website, walraven.org, which had compiled EVERY SINGLE COURT TRANSCRIPT. It was crazy! We kept going there. We also went to tons of old LA Times stories, LA Sentinel stories, CNN clips, etc, etc. We started off doing long think-piece salons with our fellow producers, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, to try and digest all this info. It was headache-inducing, to keep track of it all. Then we spent all of 2013 writing an outline for the 10-hour show, plus the pilot script (the one you watched last night). As we started writing Episode 2, we then assembled a writers room, adding DV DeVincentis, Joe Robert Cole, Wally Wolodarsky, and Maya Forbes, to all discuss these ideas and flesh them out for six weeks. Then we assigned more scripts and were off to the races!