jonathannolan

Can we please keep the conversation focused on Rampart?

This ama is just a ploy so that when our employers see all of the time we spend on reddit we can claim we're marketing the show.

I painted this dark, dystopian picture of a world under total surveillance and then explained that it was real. Everyone’s favorite part of the pitch was when I pointed to someone’s cell phone and said that the NSA could be listening to the pitch regardless of whether or not they were on a phone call.

I hate it when shows and movies get that stuff wrong. Sometimes there’s no time to get it right. But when we can, we do. All of the writers are engaged in doing their own research and trying to get it right. We have an incredible technical advisor named Tony Camerino who looks like a schoolteacher but has done all kinds of crazy shit including interrogating honest-to-god terrorists. So we try not to piss him off. Valerie Plame also stops by everyone once in a while. She’s completely rad.

Turns out the only thing that’s science fiction about our show is the public outcry that we imagined if anyone found out about Finch’s Machine. Our Machine is superior in a number of different regards.