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Toure Show

Them with Creator Little Marvin

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Them is an extraordinary new show on Amazon Prime about a Black family in the 50s who integrate Compton and end up living in a virtual horror movie because of their white neighbors. Extremely engrossing show. Toure talks to the creator, Little Marvin about why he made it and how he went from working as a creative director to quitting, writing a show, and getting it made. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 235 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kever, have you got my new speaker in the bathroom?

0:04.4

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0:07.0

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0:09.4

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0:12.4

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1:00.2

apply. I come from the world of creative directing and marketing and so I didn't really know the rules that you know writers are like you're supposed to have this, this, and this. I didn't know. So instead, I put together like a 90-page visual

1:26.8

compendium of like all of my movie references and the cinema and the history of

1:31.3

horror and what I wanted to feel like and who the actors were like and so that's what I did and long story short I ended up getting connected with Mirie Eun, an executive producer with Roy Lee or a Vertigo, and it was an instant connection.

1:45.3

And the interesting part of this is when I wrote the pilot, I like to kind of write little

1:49.5

just wishes, like mood board kind of vision board things into my phone.

1:53.4

Finish the pilot I wrote into my phone from executive producer Lena Waif

1:56.6

and then I forgot about it.

1:57.9

So then seven months later I'm sitting with Mary she's like, who do you want as your

2:01.1

collaborator and I'm like just kind of as a dare I'm like

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