![]() He attributed the ability to pull this off to members of the production team who volunteered their services because the special is designed as a fundraiser. Schur said production on the special as “slow and laborious” after a relatively speedy writing process that took between three and four days. The cast filmed themselves using iPhones while Schur and other members from the Parks creative team looked on from other angles via Zoom. Actors were sent rigs with a tripod and iPhone, lights and microphones, all of which were disinfected. In terms of logistics, the special - like NBC’s Saturday Night Live and CBS’ forthcoming drama All Rise - was produced remotely. “We had some logistical questions we had to answer but they were fairly minor,” Schur said.Ī 'Parks and Recreation' Revival Could Only Happen for This Single Reason The special will also explain why the married couples on Parks and Rec - Leslie and Ben (Scott), Ann and Chris, April (Plaza) and Andy (Pratt) - are not experiencing quarantine together. In terms of the creative, Schur said challenges included trying to remember where the cast left off from the finale - which aired in 2014 but took place in 2017 and featured the core characters at several points decades into the future. ![]() “We debated having on the front lines but didn’t want to trivialize or make light or find humor in what is the least humorous aspect of this entire thing,” Schur explained. Ann (Jones), meanwhile, was a nurse during Parks and Rec and now works doing outpatient care. That said, Schur and the Parks and Rec team did find ways for their characters to respond to the global health crisis (expect some sort of acknowledgement to come from Lowe’s Chris Traeger, aka “the world’s healthiest person”). 'Parks and Recreation' Finale Postmortem: Mike Schur on How 'Friends' Influenced Leslie's Fate It’s about her connecting with people and holding that group of characters together at a time when they’re unable to leave their homes. She was loyal and friendly and put all her eggs in the power of friendship. The most important theme of the show is: Leslie Knope believes in friendship. “It’s about people coping with it and navigating their daily lives. “The whole special is not about the disease,” Schur said. None of the Parks and Rec characters in the special will have or will have had COVID-19 for those same reasons. “We moved away from that quickly because I was terrified of seeming like we were making light of the most serious international crisis in 100 years,” Schur said. “If you get all 10 of these performers together, even virtually, you should do something new,” Schur said, noting he briefly considered a table read of one of the three Parks and Rec episodes where some characters battled the flu. That quickly went out the window when the entire cast responded in under an hour. ![]() Schur came up with the idea for the special after NBC execs reached out to him to see if he could reunite the Parks and Rec cast for a remotely filmed table read of a former episode. ![]()
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