Episode Preview (VIA: TVLine) ** WATCH LIVE STREAM AT BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE **Unless you've been living under a rock troll, you know that ABC's Once Upon a Time will lead off Season 4 (premiering Sunday at 8/7c) with its own spin on Frozen's Queen Elsa, Anna et al. But that's just the tip of the storytelling iceberg, as creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis shared with TVLine as part of our Fall Preview and during a chat at the show's premiere party.
While some of the following has been doled out to you in bits and pieces over recent weeks, here is the (mostly) complete transcript of the highlights, for your last-minute, pre-premiere consumption.
TVLINE | When did you first start batting around the idea, 'Maybe we should make a run at Frozen?' The movie came out in late November, right around when you wrapped Season 3A....
EDDY KITSIS | January...?
ADAM HOROWITZ | It was a process, and I'd say the process was this: That first weekend, right around Thanksgiving, I took my daughters to see Frozen, Eddy took his son, and we just loved the movie so much. We became obsessed with it. And there were a few 'What if?' conversations that happened, but by the time we got to January it started to go beyond that into thinking, 'Wait, we see a way to do this....'
KITSIS | It was writers room fan fiction - 'Oh boy, if we had those two we could do this...!' Finally we had so many 'We could do this' ideas, we thought: What happens if we ask? And they said yes.
TVLINE | Is it a lingering Season 3 plot thread or something new going on in Season 4 that these characters will help service?
KITSIS | Oh man, that's a good question....
HOROWITZ | It's a tricky question.
TVLINE | Or is it about bringing in new pot stirrers?
HOROWITZ | It's a combination of a number of things. It's a new pot stirrer and all that, but it's also not so much about plot coming out of Season 3 but out of character coming out of Season 3. And by that I mean, what our characters went through - particularly Emma and Regina, and Mary Margaret and David, all of them. Where they found themselves at the end of the season is incredibly relevant to what the Frozen story is and what those characters bring to our show in Season 4.
TVLINE | But weren't most of the Storybrooke characters happy when last we tuned in?
KITSIS | Well, listen - most of them are happy, but that's what the premiere is for. The premiere is to let you know, 'This is what the new season is about.' We are gong to take the character growth from the last three seasons, and Anna and Elsa (played by Elizabeth Lail and Fringe's Georgina Haig) are going to incite new developments. HOROWITZ | I'd also say that in addition to inciting things, there are things about Anna and Elsa that we discover are resonant within our own characters - issues and things they've dealt with over the course of three seasons - that make them feel like a really nice match. They can help the process of discovery and growth.
TVLINE | Is also a bit of someone else bringing their fight to our characters' playground?
KITSIS | Sometimes when someone brings their troubles into our town, LANA PARRILLA, SEAN MAGUIRE, CHRISTIE LAINGwe find out that their troubles and ours might be the same thing.
TVLINE | What would you say is the overall theme for Season 4A?
KITSIS | 'Never give up on the people you love.' To us, that was the main inspiration about Anna. We loved that she never gave up on Elsa, even though Elsa was willing to go off and live alone and let it go. Anna was like, 'No, you're my sister and I love you no matter what.'
TVLINE | So, for example, is it about Regina not giving up on the man she loves, or Robin not giving up on the woman he originally loved?
HOROWITZ | Or is it some combination? That conflict is certainly one we dive into right off the bat.
TVLINE | Care to go on record ruling out any blood ties between any Frozen characters and the regular gang?
KITSIS | Yeah!
HOROWITZ | We will go on record as saying that we are not going to reveal that Elsa is, for example, [a Storybrooke character's] sister, or that someone is her brother.
KITSIS | We really should just have a villain named, like, 'Scott,' that has no relation to anyone - and then just watch the fans get bored and go, 'Oh, now we get it.'
TVLINE | Who has the most unexpected relationship with a Frozen character? HOROWITZ | That's interesting.... I would say, Charming?
KITSIS | I would say Prince Charming has an unexpected relationship.
TVLINE | In good way or bad way?
KITSIS | In a good way.
TVLINE | Could 4B have been 4A if Disney said, 'No, too soon' to the Frozen mash-up?
HOROWITZ | We would have reconceived a lot of things, but were very fortunate that The Powers That Be at Disney said yes at a very early stage. We've had the benefit of planning this since February. Live Stream & Podcast
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