Castle - Season 5 - Jonathan Frakes Interview

TVLINE | You directed Castle before, during Season 2. But how did this especially apropos assignment come to you?

Rob Bowman, who was one of our lead directors on Star Trek [The Next Generation] and is now the producing director on Castle, called me and said, “We’re going to juggle the episodes around so the assignment you get will be this Comic-Con/Dragon-Con convention episode,” because of how familiar I am with that world. And then [Castle creator] Andrew Marlowe admitted that he himself was in fact a “nerdist,” so… [Laughs] I liked the idea and we had a ball doing it.

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