Noah WilThe most medical drama Pete feelings remind of his days playing John Carter of It – But that doesn’t mean the shows are the same.
Itwhich aired from 1994 to 2009, followed the inner life of the Emergency Department in a fictional version of the Hospital of Real Cook in Chicago. Wil participated with George Clooney, Juliana Margils, Anthony Edwards, Eric La Salle and Sherry Stinfield (And later John Stamos, Mehi Pfifer and Linda Cardelins).
More than a decade after the ER was completed, Wyle has returned as a star and executive producer of a new MAX medical series. Pete is described by the streaming service as “a realistic study of the challenges facing health workers in today’s America, as seen through the lens of the first characters working at a modern hospital in Pittsburgh.”
Pete emphasizes the peaks – and the low levels – of work, while making the 15 episodes show 15 hours of one shift.
“(Colleagues EP) John (Wales), Max and Warner brothers were aboard to try to take advantage of this new streaming platform to see if we can tell the story or not visually in a deer way than we in the 90, ” Wail Tvline In January 2025, “This is a more photorealistic way than we ever managed to do, and in a more organic efficiency based. As you are no longer in standards and practices and language (barriers), you can really draw with all the colors of the palette. The question is not “What can you show?” Instead, “What should you show by discretion and taste?”
Wil noted that he found it “really satisfying” Getting a game of a new doctor.
“I wanted to feel like what he felt – and what he hadn’t felt in a long time. Can we make him feel that way again? John and (Creator) R. Scott (Gemmill) were on board because they were looking for this feeling that all of us (last) had 15 years ago when we did it for the first time, “he continued. “The work was feeling well and we had fun and we liked each other while we did, and everyone was respectful. It was inclusive and was innovative. And we wanted to see if the lightning could hit twice – and somehow already. “
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The transition from ‘ER’ to ‘Pitt’
After Pete Premiered, the late was asked about how plans to bring back It In the end, it became a whole new show.
“This calls into question all the different chronologies of this and all different types of iterations. You are absolutely right, the intensity was born in 2020 during the pandemic, “Wil told TvlineS “The idea was to look at what was happening to the first -line people and also to look at the population that was sick and dying, and seeing how there are two different health systems in our country – those for people who have money And insurance and those who do not. “
Ties
Wil admitted that he had some deliberate similarities between Pete and ItS
“These were all the problems we tried to talk about in the 90s, when 22 million Americans passed without health insurance and used emergency departments as a major source of health care. All these topics were really significant to us then and they remain significant to us, “Wil noted with TvlineS “Then it just happened:” The old IP (intellectual property) is the easiest and most advantageous delivery system? “It seems that people are the most enchanted by their attempts, but it was not really the meaning of the exercise. “
I don’t look back
Wyle didn’t mind gathering back – but he wanted to play someone new.
“The more we went this route, the more the point was darkened in the aspect of collection, the aspect of restarting and the aspect of restart. So I didn’t regret when we were somehow forced to spin and understand how to tell the story in a new way, “he continued in January 2025,” in many ways (not revive It) We are defiled by the limitations of the story that we should adhere to and pay tribute. “
Attracting someone new in life
As the new episodes aired in January 2025, Wyle They compared John Carter and D -Robby.
“It is so different in design. Once we have focused away from the idea of ​​having (the series) to be tied to this (It) IP, we wanted to see how different we could do it, “he explained TelevisionS “I am interested in playing a person who came from greater origin with blue collars and who did not have any of these early options that came to medicine for completely different reasons.”
Wyle also wanted the Covid-19 pandemic to be integrated into storytelling, adding: “This is a person who probably shouldn’t do this more, but was pressed back into operation during Covid and remained to get on the weight At work, without really doing any of the therapeutic or analytical work needed to optimize his mental health. “
He continued: “He is not quite the task and today you catch him on a really bad day. The mask he carries with competence and confidence begins to erode. We see the fee that practices medicine through Covid and then acquired some of these healthcare professionals. “
Drawing a line in the medical sand
“In many ways, It It was a patient-oriented show, and it’s more of a supplier show, which puts the focus of the drug and the current way that is practiced in the first position, “the actor told the actor to Variety In January 2025, “I would emphasize the contribution of Dr. Joe Sax, who was a technical advisor to It And he is a very advisor to this show, executive producer of the writer’s staff. He puts everything to make sure that realism is on the page, on the stage, and makes sure that the community from which it comes is revered and the stories they want are depicted. “
Fine but purposeful changes
“The main difference in the two shows is that there is a social conscience in this,” Wil said in the WTF with Marc Maron in January 2025. “My intensity came from wanting to return the spotlights to that community, which for this, that for the first time – from It He came to the air – he did not coincide with all the candidates and all the places they needed. We have a shortage of nurses and we have a great need for these people to be in their work if we have another pandemic. “
