You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and these are Brandon Hodges's interviews

with the screenwriter for the Apple TV series, Silo, Graham Yost, the show's director, Morton

Tildum, its production designer Gavin Bocet, the cinematographer Mark Patton, and its composer,

At Leigh Overso. We hope you enjoyed

this behind scenes look at Silo. We do not know why we are here. We do not know who built

the Silo and why we are underground.

We only know the world outside our sanctuary is death.

Well, thank you for being with me today to talk about Silo.

And, you know, I've been rereading the Lord of the Rings.

And it struck me how the changes Peter Jackson made when making the films is kind of as crystal clear an example as it gets for how what works on the page doesn't

always work on this screen. There has to be an adaptation process, right? So where did that adaptation

process begin with you on silo, especially how you

settled on the idea of kind of cutting the book in half for the first season?

I first have to stop you and say, I went through Lord of the Rings again the year before.

I read them, I'll listen to them, the version with, oh, God, Golm.

Oh, Andy Circus.

It's Circus reading them.

And then watched the movies.

And I was communicating with the guy who's the showrunner on Slow Horses, he and I are Tolkien geeks.

Like, he's visited Tolkien's grave.

And we got into this whole thing about what never gets enough attention is what a brilliant adaptation those movies are.

What was taken out, not just Tom Bombadillo and the scouring of the Shire and all of that, but just other things, just the way the elves are introduced.

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