The Point Radio: BATES MOTEL & DA VINCI'S DEMONS Reinventing Icons

Television has been blessed with the reinvention of two icons. Carlton Cuse (LOST) talks about the choices he made in rebooting PSYCHO as BATES MOTEL, plus David Goyer (DARK KNIGHT, MAN OF STEEL) and his cast share the challenges faced on reintroducing the masses to Leonardo Da Vinci in DA VINCI’S DEMONS (premiering tonight at 10pm ET on Starz). Also, Robyn Schneider (@robinschneider) talks the latest DOCTOR WHO and the CW bails on THE CULT. Take us ANYWHERE! The Point Radio App is now in the iTunes App store – and it’s FREE! Just search under “pop culture The Point”. The Point Radio – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun for FREE. GO HERE and LISTEN FREE on any computer or on any other mobile device with the Tune In Radio app – and follow us on Twitter @ThePointRadio.

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Hello, it's Mike Raub and welcome to The Point where all parts of pop culture come together. One's a historical icon, the other a pop culture icon, both with brand new series on television and you should be watching each one. We've got the folks behind Bass Motel and Adventures Demons here to explain just why. Plus, Bye Bye Cult, Hello Ring World and the Saga Controversy hits comic stores.

Let's get to The Point. This is The Point, The Point Radio, get The Point Radio. Da Vinci's Demons, a new original series from Stars, takes a look at the historical icon, Leonardo Da Vinci. It's a brainchild of David Goyer who made his mark, among other things, with the Batman trilogy and the upcoming Man of Steel film. And David says that this is a whole new look at a historical icon you think you know.

We're essentially positioning Da Vinci as kind of one third Indiana Jones, one third Sherlock Holmes, one third kind of Tony Stark. So it's Da Vinci when he's 27. A lot of people think of Da Vinci as the old guy that he did the self-portrait and then people think he did Pomona Lisa and Last Supper. But the truth is he was known to be a really good swordsman. He was ambidextrous. He could fight with both hands. He was known to be a really good rider. He had a reputation for having a really big mouth.

He was thrown in jail a bunch of times. He had a reputation for fighting. And most of his life he made his living as a war engineer, not as an artist. That's all true. I didn't make any of that up. So that's the starting point is that a lot of people, people reckon in various studies that he's the most recognizable figure in history other than Jesus Christ. And yet a lot of people don't know that much about him. They link him to secret societies because of Dan Brown. But the truth is Da Vinci was obsessed with secrecy.

He wrote in mirror writing and a lot of his paintings have hidden symbols in it and things like that. So our basic premise is conveniently from the time he was 27 to 32 there's almost no record of where he was or what he was doing. There's some conflicting accounts that historians argue about. Some people say he was in Syria as a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire and he in fact wrote two letters claiming that that's what he was doing designing weapons. And then we also know that he at the time of his death he had about 13,000 notebook pages and within a year of his death 7,000 of those pages weren't missing.

That again all true. So the show is really about those five years and the missing 7,000 pages. Well that there's even more you probably don't know. For example. He invented the machine gun, the tank, the submarine, the diving suit, the helicopter, the glider. These are all the things we know he did invent. And so my starting point was well if he did all that what don't we know about that he also did. And he also knew a lot of the famous people at the time. He knew Columbus. He knew Machiavelli. He knew Vlad Dracul, the real Vlad Dracul.

He knew a lot of these people. He knew Torquemada who started the Spanish Inquisition. He came in contact with all these people. Among the cast actress Laura Paulver. And they've then written beautiful little nuggets for me from episode 3 onwards. Where you start to find out thank you more and more about who this woman really is. So is her character a love interest?

He can't approach her in that sense. Artists weren't appreciated in the same way they are now. They are working class and we're employing him in that sense. And so he'd be reaching within his means to try and sexually allure someone like myself. However there's a marrying of minds and a challenge that I think he sees in me and my character. Which is touched on in the first season but isn't even fully explored by the end of the first season. When you add in actress Laura Haddig to the mix it might just evolve into a love triangle.

At least that's what Tom Riley who plays Da Vinci led us to believe. And the mystery is Laura and when I find my way into the The The The

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The Point Radio: BATES MOTEL & DA VINCI’S DEMONS Reinventing Icons

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