Jefferson Chacon image of Taika Waititi as Supreme Being and Jemaine Clement as Pure Evil in Time Bandits
The Big Picture Adapted from the beloved cult classic movie and created for television by Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Taika Waititi, the Apple TV+ original series Time Bandits is an adventure following a ragtag group of thieves traveling through time and space, who happen to cross paths with 11-year-old history buff . Penelope , Alto , Widgit , Bittelig and Judy have been fine on their own, making their way through worlds of the distant past and collecting treasure along the way.
TAIKA WAITITI: I love working with Jemaine . He’s my best bud. We’ve done a lot of stuff together. And we did it with Iain Morris, another good friend of ours. We are all pretty much the same age. We grew up with Monty Python and all these other great British comedies and American comedies. Our sensibilities are all very similar. We did a lot of work on Shadows, the movie, and also the TV show.
WAITITI: The sets, all the environments, and all the VFX stuff was really, really well done. We did a lot of stuff with miniatures and puppets. We did practical builds of stuff to try to do things in camera, if we could. It’s also a completely different guest cast in each episode, in a different country and in a different year. The scale is really big and it feels like an epic film, episode to episode.
CLEMENT: Yeah, it’s always in a different place. We were always apologizing to the crew and saying, “Sorry, you have to make a whole new place in 10 days.” But they loved it. They said, “That’s why we do film, to make new worlds.” It was a pleasure to get to do it so many times, instead of doing the same thing, over and over again.
1 Otherwise, you wouldn’t have had that fantastic skull headdress to wear or the Fortress of Darkness to get to hang out in. What was it like to figure out what that headdress would be. so that it wasn’t too heavy?
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