What exactly was the point?
I'm wondering was this intended to be a pilot for a TV show that followed the motel if so what happend?
shareThe pilot was writer/director Richard Rothstein's misguided attempt at doing a "Psycho" spin-off as a hoped-for weekly TV series, where the Bates Motel was going to become a place where people come to be redeemed of their trials and tribulations. Just like the actress in the pilot who comes to the motel to do herself in, and then she meets up with these young teenagers who come to the motel to have a party, and how she befriends 2 in particular, only to find that they all are actually deceased teens—all of whom died by suicide. The teens' experience gives her a reason to keep on living.
The pilot fell flat, and hence, no TV series ever came out of it. Even Anthony Perkins didn't want anything to do with it.
Why would one epidose be 90 minutes long? Is this more like a TV show or a movie?
shareThe word here is, PILOT -aka. first episode of a hopeful TV series.
Television studios produce hopeful new TV series, first as a one-hour PILOT,(or 2-hr TV movie). Some PILOTS are shorter, some longer.
Some PILOTS are viewed first by special screening groups, but depending on the reviews from these groups (good or bad), these PILOTS may air and some may never see the light of day - or air (be seen) on any National, Syndicated, or Cable television Network.
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This pilot was shown on television. I watched it when it was first broadcast.
With commercials, it ran for two hours. It never became a series.
You need to check the trivia section which states that Anthony Perkins was not contacted at all about the movie and that he did not like the movie.
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