The series began as four two hour made for TV movies.
The success of the movies spawned 20 one hour episodes.
Now in its third season LEXX has mutated once again.
The making of the LEXX
For season three what we’re hoping [to tell] a story in thirteen parts.
With each part of the story… each long part of the story
so be more or less self-contained.
So exactly where are we?
Between Fire and Water
There’re two planets that have a sort of
they’re almost in the same orbit share an atmosphere at one point.
One is called Fire which is totally dry and has not water at all and very hot
and the other is Water which is all water.
The Lexx has been drifting for like over four thousand years
and it drifts into their atmosphere and they think it’s a comet –
the people down on the planet think it’s a comet –
so they travel using hot-air balloons.
So they go up in this hot-air balloon
and they shoot an arrow at it and basically -
it’s like shooting the white whale you know - they get it...
and it pulls them along and then they sort of really get in.
And get on board.
The story arc is clear, the on the characters is clear
and I think the introduction of Prince
like a sort of like a almost a fourth prominent cast member in a sense.
That worked really-really well.
He’s one of these characters that has unlimited power.
He has unlimited power, unlimited abilities. He can do what he wants to…
He just decides what he wants to do and does it. Because he can.
You command the Lexx. And I have learned that the Lexx is a great weapon -
a weapon that will finally tip the scales
I think in some ways Stan represents -
in the broad sense of the word - “the common man”.
Stan wants to survive - he wants to survive the best he can -
and wants to avoid unpleasant circumstances
and wants to engage in pleasant ones.
The sensual man – that’s Stanly basically.
He’s up to find anything to engage anything that brings him pleasure.
And to run as fast as he can from anything
that will require complication responsibility or pain.
You see, an evil planet is gonna be blown into tiny little chunks,
and then the Lexx, hopefully, is gonna eat those chunks,
and then we'll be able to sail away from a place
where I really don't wanna be anymore
So in terms of my own identification with Stanly
I would never wanna be the guy you know but… - in real life -
but in terms of a character I think it’s a wonderful role to play.
I mean its… it’s so broad, there’re so many possibilities in there
as oppose to Michael playing Kai whose role is essentially eliminated.
Did they hit us?
Not where it matters
After first day, couple of what are we gonna do,
your character is so dolly. I recalled "no-no-no!
You wrote him dead, he stays dead,
I am gonna do it. He doesn't wanna be alive or be half-human like…
No I’m dead-dead-dead, I just want to be dead".
And then as oppose to that he became more mechanical
and then in the last year the thing was
that he can be superman - sort of -
or he can have a kind of a really extreme physical stability
or whatever but it’s got to be vulnerable as well.
Kai becomes…. Well I don’t wanna actually say
but we will actually see a whole other… possibly
the whole other side of Kai character which
actually even has more to it then meets the eye at first.
Kai? I thought that you had somehow come to life,
but you are still dead, aren't you?
Yes
So how can there be two of you?
One is dead - the other is alive
That had a nice sporting touch with the Japanese bow
which I managed to learn pretty well how to do.
That was fun, that was really fun to get that [artily] in.
Xev gets an opportunity to see a different side of Kai
which she finds shall we say attractive and interesting.
She’s got the appearance of the love slave
and the soul of an independent fearless warrior woman.
She can sort of… she’s very good at serve playing things
to get her way and… plays a double agent a lot of the times I think.
What?
Why I'm happy to accept your deal under the right conditions.
You bring out something in me that doesn't always find proper expression
Jesus Christ… I almost..
I was just wondering…
what * was I wondering? What was the * line?
Subtitles: Lunatik, ALGC, Bankolya