I Think Most People Know The Concept

The Big Thing Is It's A Domestic Drama. Everything Else In Science Fiction Tends To Be High-concept. Really For The Last 40 Years Or So I Think Sci-fi's Been A Little Cold And A Little Inhuman Quite Often - Certainly Since The 1980s - And I Really Wanted To Do Something That Almost Felt Like A Regular, Real-life Drama But Just Set It In A Sci-fi Setting. I Think The Best Stuff Is Always Like That.

The Ultimate [act] That Would Be The Taboo, To Show How Bad Some Villain Is, Was To Have Somebody Being Raped, You Know? I Don't Really Think It Matters. It's The Same As, Like, A Decapitation. It's Just A Horrible Act To Show That Somebody's A Bad Guy.

I Think Most People Know The Concept Of Difficult Family Situations. So I Try To Just Ground A Very Big Concept In Something We Can All Relate To On Some Level.

The Trick Was Really Finding The Appropriate Publisher For Each Of The Projects I'd Devised.

For Years I've Wanted To Work With This Guy, So To Actually Write At The Top Of My Scripts "empress, Script By Mark Millar, Art By Stuart Immonen" Is An Absolute Pleasure.