To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They…

- Alfred Gough

So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons…

- Alfred Gough

As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow.…

- Alfred Gough

And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introdu…

- Alfred Gough

I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way…

- Alfred Gough

Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" w…

- Alfred Gough

Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic un…

- Alfred Gough

We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east w…

- Alfred Gough

They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week…

- Alfred Gough