#michael narducci

When asked if there was a story he wanted to tell before he died, he answered:

> "One story I really want to tell is kind of inspired by, the great novel, 'What Dreams May Come.' That's a novel about what really happens, the journey of life after death. And I don't even know if I believe in life after death, but I want to tell a story where the hero dies and follow the hero into their journey and what that might look like, and, in fact, the way I framed it in my mind is the story of two people in love who died together in an accident and have to, you know, experience the afterlife trying to get back to each other with Infinity as the backdrop. All of time, all of creation, all of the cosmos. It's kind of a heady idea, but I've been nursing it in the back of my head for about 10 years, a little bit more than that, and I think, you know, someday I want to write it as a script. It would be unfilmable and unproducible, but I would like to tell that story, and maybe I'll write it as a novel, but I'd like to tell that story before I die."

I don’t know if my Klamille brain is running wild again, but tell me that doesn’t sound like the most haunting, beautiful, and painfully fitting story for Cami and Klaus.. Even the time he had the idea fits!

David Ramsey will reprise his role as the Arrowverse’s John Diggle in The CW’s Justice U. Justice U is being written by Michael Narducci and Zoanne Clack. Should The CW move forward with the series, Ramsey will direct the pilot episode.

Justice U will follow John Diggle as he recruits five young meta humans to “live undercover as freshmen at a prestigious university. There he will oversee their education and train them to become the heroes of tomorrow.”

Confidence in your writing isn’t arrogance. You have to remember he was dealing with continuous bullshit on twitter from fans telling him how to write. As someone who loves to write, I can only imagine the level of irritation I would experience if I had a vision and was trying to let it unfold gradually and properly, and a dozen people were screaming NO IT SUCKS BECAUSE I WANT KLAUS KISSING CAROLINE! I HOPE YOUR SHOW GETS CANCELED!!

He always had people in his mentions telling him things he never said, and then acting outraged over it.

Kevin Williamson should have no say in anything TVD related once he jumps ship, as far as I’m concerned. He is always, always starting shows and then leaving them, only to try to come back at the end and do things as he originally intended them. Which no longer fits into the narrative of the show he left behind. The fact that he made the TVD finale about which brother was better was so off. The show moved beyond that. Not to mention, I don’t think he actually had much to do with klaroline. Narducci had more input. Klaroline don’t exactly have a lot of moments, and Narducci wrote a large majority of them.

Maybe you didn’t see their sex scene as final, because you liked them, but it was blatantly a goodbye to everyone outside that fandom. Fans wanted to see them kiss and have sex, so they gave it to them, because they had no intention of them ever seeing each other again. They also undid the however long it takes, and made it clear they were interested in other people. I recall at the time people who didn’t like them weren’t very angry it happened, but more relieved to know it was over. 

@MichaelNarducci

Without knowing whether or not the show would be back for Season 5, how difficult was it for you to decide to leave The Originals, as the showrunner, at the end of this season? Was that something that you had to think a lot about? (x)

I don’t mean to disappoint you but I’ve learnt not to trust in anything the writers say except what they actually write and happens on screen. People often post on social media without worrying too much about the meaning someone might infer from that post, but more often than that, writers and the overall crew and cast of a television show post stuff on social media to attract more viewers, because more viewers equals more money. That’s just the way things work. Is MN posting that exact quote on the same day as the promo comes out a coincidence? Hell not. Does it mean anything about the actual direction they will be following on the show? It can go either way, but probably not. Call it fan-bait, fan-service or whatever you want to call it, but that’s what they are doing. I personally don’t like those terms because they let out the wrong idea that pleasing fans is not what you’re supposed to do. It’s exactly what you’re supposed to do, because more fans equals more viewers and, like I said, more viewers equals more money. However, what MN is doing is not quite that. He is trying to lure back a great portion of his audience, whom he lost by killing off Cami, by feeding us a 3 second hallucination to make us want to watch the episode only for us to realize later on that it was just a one time thing and Cami is still dead. Am I falling for it? Hell yeah, but I’m not so blind as to not know exactly what I’m falling for.

Some days ago, when answering this ask, I talked about how Klaus and Camille’s love is a soulmate connection that goes beyond time and space and how you only find a love like that once in a lifetime. That is what I believe in because that is what I watched develop between them over the course of three years, not because I believe a single word MN posts on Twitter. Do I have hope that Camille O’Connell is the one and only love of Klaus Mikaelson’s life? Yes, I do, and I firmly believe that’s the story they are telling, but not because of social media hints.

I think it was a bundle of reasons, tbh. I think he saw the writing on the wall and knew the show was heading toward cancellation and wanted to jump ship to something else while he still could, and I also think he was maybe feeling creatively stifled. And not to make us sound important or anything, but I think the absolute mess and drama surrounding Cami getting killed off kind of changed how he felt about the show. He was always active on social media, and then logged off when she died, came back, apologized and said he’d try to do better next time, and then swore he would never talk about that stuff ever again. And was he ever really as active again? 

Not saying Cami was the love of his life or anything, but I think anytime your hand is forced into killing off one of your creations, and you know deep inside it was a bad move, your passion for the story might dwindle. I know for me personally, if I had a clear vision for a show and some outsider intervened and said, “We need you to do this, this, and this” I’d kind of feel like being done with it and starting fresh.