Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Ashley
So just did you have, did you take some of the scenes from the web series? Did you take some of the scenes from the pilot? Did any of those actual scenes make it into the final production?
Greg Porper
Yes. So there’s one scene that was in the web series that is loosely included in the movie, but it was like that scene on steroids. Like we alluded to a scene where two characters are drinking. They accidentally drink Larry’s kombucha. And Larry then, you know, enters the office. This is in the web series and wants to drink kombucha. But another character who, you know, there’s a surprise drug test and long story short, they find themselves mistaking the kombucha for pee. And that was a scene that’s when people watched it. I mean, it’s equally cringe as it is just like laugh out loud funny. And that was actually an element that we wanted to have in our story in the feature, we did not know how we were going to get there and where we were going to go from that point. But as opposed to starting on page one, like what’s the story going to be? We had that point and we kind of like reverse engineered and work backwards. The initial I’d say the initial fact of like Susan not inviting Larry to a company party. That was from the web series. But in the web series that was an accident in the film, it was intentional. And that’s an example of one of those page three rewrites. We did versions where it was accidental, and that had one ripple effect. And we did versions where it was intentional and that had another. So those two elements remained. And then other than that, there was a few little Easter eggs and jokes that were in the web series that we included. But other plot points were separate.
