We spoke w/ maxthieriot about the success of FireCountryCBS and why authenticity is so important.
The CBS freshman series Fire Country follows Bode Donavan who, after burning down his own life and ending up with a five-year prison sentence, finds himself back in his hometown in a release program that gives him the chance to prove he’s deserving of reduced time. Teamed up with firefighters battling Northern California wildfires constantly tests Bode’s strength, resolve and determination, but it can also help him achieve the redemption that he’s looking for.
What got you to a place where you wanted to be this involved with something? Was it something that you intentionally sought out, or was it something that you couldn’t really avoid because you wanted to tell this story? For me, it was easy to write because you write what you know. Because it was so personal and so close, it all came from a place that I was connected to, so it was easy for me to translate that into these characters and this world. It was not something that I was really having to build, from the beginning. The foundation was there. Now, I’m going back through other parts of my life and wondering what else there might be. It’s an interesting process. Honestly, it was a lot of fun.
We have technical consultants. We work with a bunch of different firefighters, from all over, with many years of experience. A couple of the guys that we have up here both have about 30 years. We really try to bring in as much of the authenticity as we possibly can. It’s always that fine line of telling these dramatic stories for television, but also respecting the job that people do, and we try to keep those two things close.
When you stand close to any fire, especially the bigger and hotter it is, you cannot stand next to that fire for long without your face feeling like it’s melting. It’s an unreal heat that you feel. You basically get sunburn. It’s crazy. That’s one of the hard things to figure out. On the pilot, it wasn’t unknown to everyone because we all had an idea of what it would be, but once we had that proof of concept, it made everybody a little more aware of what we could expect, going forward.
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