Thanks to Kahlan for the heads up.
SABS: Before we start – let me just say – THANKS!!! I love HAVEN and I'm not gonna kid ya - you've changed the way I look and feel about my own hometown especially after dark. So how did you find the South Shore of Nova Scotia?
JIM DUNN: Working with Entertainment One Television, our studio, we knew from the outset that the show would be a Canadian production. The question was where, right?
There are always a multitude of factors that go into decisions like that, and we looked at several options. But at the end of the day, the sheer beauty and look of Nova Scotia was impossible to walk away from.
We were always going to be in Stephen King’s Maine, and of course Nova Scotia is literally as close to Maine as you can get. But beyond that, the South Shore is simply breathtaking.
A lot of shows struggle to manufacture a sense of place, to find beautiful exterior elements to work into their show. But we tell people all the time – up here, you just point the camera at anything – and it’s beautiful. It’s truly the perfect location for this show.
SABS: I can imagine when you create a show – you have a vision for what it will look like when it hits the screen, but now as you're shooting Season 3 – I'm wondering how much of what we're seeing is how you originally mapped it out and how much has evolved creatively with the HAVEN writing team?
JIM DUNN: I hear all the time about shows that get ordered to series – shows that incorporate in their very concept big mysteries or complicated back stories – and then the writers have to scramble to figure out what, exactly, those big stories are. Astounds me. I don’t know how to write like that.
Sam and I didn’t even begin trying to sell the idea for the show, years ago, until we had a very clear idea of what was going on in Haven and why.
Details of the story have shifted over time – you have to be flexible, you want to get the benefits of collaboration as you grow a project like this. But we’ve always had a series of milestones for the show, a set of story points that would propel the big story toward it’s conclusion over the long run.
We really do know where we’re going.
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