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Revision as of 03:34, 17 February 2010
Eric Kripke is Series Creator and Executive Producer . He was the Showrunner for Season 1-5. he will stay on in an Executive Producer role for Season 6.
Kripke on the genesis of the series from 2005:
Kripke: At one point I wanted to do an anthology show. Another time, I wanted to do a series about a reporter who works for a tabloid magazine, pretty much a rip-off of the original Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And then, finally, just through development with the studio, settled on this idea of telling these stories in the format of this Route 66: Great American Road Trip with these two brothers.
TV.com: Well, it worked well.
Eric Kripke: It's sort of funny how it all worked out. I literally had scribbled [the idea] in a notebook the day before my meeting with the studio, and then I came into the studio and had pitched them my reporter idea. And they didn't like it. They said, "What else do you got?" I didn't have anything. So, I tap danced and said, "Well, I got this great idea about two brothers on a road trip." They loved it, and it ended up being the show. So, it's funny how that works out.
- Early draft of Pilot. Mary Harrison dies in what everyone thinks is a car accident when her sons are 9 and 11. After her death their father - Jack Harrison - leaves Sam and Dean and they are raised by an aunt and uncle.
Kripke talks about casting Jared and Jensen:
When we started casting, we had archetypes in mind, which were Han Solo and Luke Skywalker. We were really looking for Sam to be empathetic, kind, and likeable, and really the audience surrogate. The person who the audience would most see themselves as and really carry the story through their eyes. And that required a really unique likeability. For Dean, we were looking for Han Solo. We were looking for devil-may-care, charismatic, a little rough around the edges, a little edgy, says things that are not always the kindest thing, as long as they're funny. And that was really what we started out with.
And Jared and Jensen both just so inhabited those parts, and then proceeded to blow us away with how dimensionalized they were. For Jensen, the level of emotion and totally flawed, screwed-to-hell psyche that he brings to Dean, we really are enamored with. This idea that on the surface here's this Han Solo devil-may-care persona, but when you really scratch beneath the surface, you see that anyone who has that persona has it because they are just so messed up, and that you would have to be so screwed up and damaged to be the person who always jumps first off a cliff.
So, he really brought Dean to life in a really three-dimensional way, and Jared did the same thing with Sam. Yes, Sam was likeable, and the audience surrogate and all the things he was supposed to be, but also angry, and disaffected, and, at times, hilariously funny, loyal, and despondent. He brought in all of these different colors that have really brought these characters to life, which I think is probably very rare for a genre show to have--characters as dimensionalized as ours--and I'm really proud of it. It has a lot to do with Bob Singer and the other writers probably more than it had to do with me. I came in just looking for good kills, and through the talents and abilities of the actors and the writers, they just brought these guys to life in a way I never really dreamed, obviously.
Variety reports that Kripke has signed a two-year creative deal with Warner brothers, but will stay on as the showrunner for Sueprantural in its fourth season
With the announcement of the Season Six renewal of the show on February 17, 2010, Michael Ausiello reports that both Eric Kripke and Bob Singer will step aside as show runners to devote more time to new projects with the WB. Sera Gamble is promotyed to showrunner. Ausiello reports a source saying: “Eric and Bob will be working very closely with Sera. They are not abandoning the show."
Contents
Writer of:
- 1.01 Pilot
- 1.02 Wendigo
- 1.09 Home
- 1.16 Shadow
- 1.22 Devil's Trap
- 2.01 In My Time Of Dying
- 2.22 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two
- 3.01 The Magnificent Seven
- 3.16 No Rest For The Wicked
- 4.01 Lazarus Rising
- 4.07 It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
- 4.10 Heaven And Hell
- 4.22 Lucifer Rising
Director of:
Eric in Fandom
Convention Appearances
- William S. Paley Television Festival
- Comic Con 2007
- Salute to Supernatural L.A. 2008
- Comic Con 2008
- Comic Con 2009
Links
- Eric Kripke on IMDB
- Eric Kripke on Wikipedia
- [[1]] for quotes and interveiws wqith Kripke voer the life of Supernatural
Clips, articles and interviews
- 22 November, 2006 - The Cincinnati Post
- 12 October, 2006 - TVGuide
- 22 June, 2007 - Cynthia Littleton
- 21 July, 2007 - TV Guide
- Eric talks about Season Three spoilers for S3
- 24 July, 2007 - SciFi Wire
- Eric talks about Season Threespoilers for S3
- 25 July, 2007 - iF Magazine
- Eric talks about Season Three spoilers for S3
- 27 July, 2007 - Comic Con
- 27 September, 2007 - TV Addict.com
- 2 October, 2007 - Associated content
- 4 October, 2007 - TV Guide
- November, 2007 Media Boulevard
- 9 January, 2008 - tv.com
- 6 February, 2008 - Buddy TV
- 28 September, 2008 - TV Guide
- September 2008
- October 2008
- Kripke clarifies whether Dean is a dick, and a missed plot point in Eclipse Magazine
- May, 2009
- Interview with Kripke by Tv Guide
- August 26, 2009
- Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune in an epic interview with Kripke.
- September 1, 2009
- Previewing the apocalypse Kripke talks S5 with TV Guide
- September 6, 2009
- Kripke talks with NY Post
- November, 2009
- Kripke on the second half of s5 with usaweekend
- January 2010
- Interview with Kripke by usaweekend
