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BuzzSugar has a new interview with Chuck creator Josh Schwartz about Chuck, Gossip Girl and The O.C. Here’s an excerpt:
Where did “Chuck” come from?
Chris Fedak, whom I co-created the show with, we went to film school together at USC. He pitched me the concept, the idea of an average guy getting secrets downloaded into his brain. I thought it was a really cool idea, and I thought it could also be really funny. And I had been wanting to do something that had some genre elements to it after “The OC.” The first stories I ever wrote as a kid were, like, James Bond stories in my journals in summer camp, so I’ve always loved that world. I also really wanted to write about people in their 20s and what they’re going through, but it’s really hard to do a show about people in their 20s. It becomes a lot of navel-gazing, people complaining about their lives. But if a guy in his 20s is complaining about his life because he was almost killed by a ninja the night before, now you’ve got something. (read the whole article…)
