The sci-fi series ‘V’ rattled viewers with its depiction of cold-blooded authoritarians conquering the world—but some fans have misinterpreted its anti-fascist allegory.
—found this all to be far-fetched.
Brandon Tartikoff, who had been president of entertainment at NBC for about a year, wanted something bold to revive a network stuck in last place. He would become legendary for programming hits likebut in 1982 none of those existed. He quickly committed to making Johnson’s miniseries and possibly turning it into a weekly show—but he had notes. “He said, ‘I don’t know that Americans willfascism,’” Johnson recalls. “I said, ‘Well, it’s not a complicated concept, Brandon.
Johnson recalls being tempted to join up himself. “I got a call one night, ‘Kenny, it’s Roger and Dick,’” he says. Dick, of course, was Nixon, who told him: “’I want you to leave the show. I want you to come with me. We’re going to do this big Madison Square Garden rally. Roger tells me you’re a great director.’”
would be Johnson’s treatise on the corrupting allure of prejudice and power. If that had to have lizard people, so be it.got the greenlight. With NBC’s commitment to air it, Warner Bros. signed on to produce the four-hour miniseries for about $8 million—roughly the same that George Lucas had gotten forsix years earlier. But it all had to be done fast.
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