r/Invincible • u/simonracioppa Simon Racioppa - Showrunner • Apr 23 '21

I’m Simon Racioppa, showrunner for the Invincible series on Prime Video. AMA! AMA

Hey Reddit, happy Invincible Friday. Heard you wanted to chat about the show, so I’m here to answer as many questions as I can without spoiling where all of this is going. I wrote Episode 7, so this is a particularly special week for me, and have enjoyed reading all of your reactions so far.

Proof: https://twitter.com/Sraxs/status/1384222941932441611

And here’s the Invincible trailer: https://youtu.be/-bfAVpuko5o

Let’s do this!

EDIT: Thanks everyone! Your support makes all the hard work over the last few years worthwhile – for me, and everyone else who worked on Season one of Invincible during a very strange and difficult last year. Hope to be back here sometime soon!

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u/sharkfrog Apr 23 '21

Hey Simon thanks for doing this!

I'm a huge fan of the comics, and the show has been fantastic so far! Episode 7 was amazing, especially all the stuff Omni-man had to go through while trying to find Mark. What are some of the challenges that come into play while writing new stuff for the series while keeping it true to the spirit of the comic, and how much influence do you have on said changes?

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u/simonracioppa Simon Racioppa - Showrunner Apr 23 '21

It’s a huge challenge – I was shitting my pants writing episode 2 for Robert, since I was making changes to his books to make it fit better into an hour of television. By episode 7, it was easier since we had so many episodes done by then. A lot of the changes were inevitable because of the previous episodes. It mostly was a matter of sitting down and asking myself: What would Cecil do now? How would Debbie react to this? Can I make this more emotional? Can I make this cooler? And going from there, while knowing in the back of my head where the episode had to end.

At the end of the day, the only people I had to convince were Robert and our show executives at Amazon.

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u/Midnight_Swampwalk Apr 23 '21

How has amazon been to work with?

Hands-off like netflix or wrong?