Why was Sense8 made as a series and not a feature film?
I recently discovered that one of my favorite sci-fi feature films, Limitless got a continuation as a series.
Then I discovered a new sci-fi topic in Sense8, which is a series. It was created by Wachowskis, who have much experience in starting as successful feature films, e.g. Matrix.
I want to understand why a series format was chosen in the fist place this time by them. I did a web search for "sense8 why series not feature film", which gave several links, one is the wiki on the film and others are https://www.wired.com/story/sense8-finale-death-of-weird-sci-fi/ and https://www.tvovermind.com/sense8-turned-feature-film/.
The second link states there is a strong case for a feature film now. But I wonder why they did not make one in the first place rather than a series.
Best Answer
J. Michael Straczynski said:
Andy and Lana began looking for new challenges and thought it could be really cool to try their hands at television
Apparently Lana called him up and said
Why don’t you come up to San Francisco and stay at the house for a few days, and let’s figure something out to do together for television?
So it seems that the original plan was to make a series, and that the specific ideas for Sense8 were fleshed out afterwards.
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