WondLa Season 2 is finally out on Apple TV+ and the adventure is underway. Eva and Rovender are back and it feels good. That Hashtag Show had the chance to sit down with series creator Tony DiTerlizzi and showrunner Bobs Gannaway.  During our interview, we talked about the second entry in this trilogy and crafting a story that all ages can enjoy.

“I was excited and have been thrilled to see Bobs and the team really lean into those concepts and those themes,” DiTerlizzi told us. “It’s really not a message. It’s an exploration of these themes. And then, let the viewer, or in my case, the reader come to their own conclusions on how they feel about that. But I would say with the experience, the idea of Rovender and Rovender’s backstory. ‘Why is Rovender the way he is?’”

“We all are the heroes of our own story. We all have a backstory that has formed and shaped us to who we are today. And just because you’re intersecting with someone at that moment in their life You don’t always know the full story,” the author pondered. “This was an amazing chance to be able to explore those backstories of why some of these characters are broken, for lack of a better word. What shapes them, and makes them who they are.”

WondLa’s Bobs Gannaway on Feature Quality Animation

WondLa boasts some delightful visuals and a stacked roster of creative talent. Gannaway explained how involved the other partners at Skydance were while building this world. Tony provides the words on the page, but also has input in the molding of WondLa. It’s all collaborative and leads to strong results.

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“Part of our process is to be very collaborative, not just with the team making the show, but with the people working on other shows at Skydance,” Gannaway revealed. “We bring them all in as fresh eyes to critique us and to pressure test things. It’s been great having the opportunity to, as Tony said, conceive the whole thing as a holistic thing, not as individual seasons.”

“But then, to realize it as getting from feature quality, and using a feature process of storytelling when we iterate. We explore, we try the show, we tear it down,” he said. “So, when you see an episode, you’re seeing like the sixth or seventh version of it. Because we trial tested it amongst ourselves, and continue to make it better. So yeah, having the foundation Tony gave us to start with and just be able to build on it was great.”

You can stream season 2 of WondaLa now on AppleTV+.

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