Promlikit (BPS 2) Focusing on Ayutthaya
Khun Daeng gave an interview to Komchadluek
Question : Boup Pe Sunniwaat's fans are joyful after seeing a picture that Khun Daeng has got Promlikit paper.
Answer : Fans are joyful but I’m not (laugh) because hard work is coming. The Prom Likit paper that I received is only one third. Khun Rom Phaeng intends to finish this to keep up with the National Thai book Fair week in April this year. Although it is finished I would not know because I don’t receive it by myself. (I don’t understand what she meant but from the picture she got one third of Promlikit from Khun Nong.)
Question : What is the content that has been received?
Answer : “The story is similar to BPS. N’ek is a person in this era going back to Ayutthaya Era but in PromLikit she is not dead. She meets Date and Kade's family. She meets their twins.
Question : Is It fun?
Answer I just read roughly but it is fun, fun as ever.
Question : If Khun Rom Paeng told that the novel would finish in April. Then how long does the script writing take?
Answer : It depends on the time I have and difficulty of conveying the content to be a script. I hope it would be quicker than BPS (BPS took her 2 years) because I get used to and knows how to manage it and how to make fan like it. This would be easier. When I wrote BPS script, I knew nothing.
Question : How long does it take to research the data?
Answer : It takes time especially the story that is far from the King Narai Era. In the King Narai I’m accustomed to because I used to read about it but Phrajao Tie Sa and Phrajao Suer Era, I didn’t. I have to read a lot. The difficulty of TV script is to take description to be picture and sound. I cannot answer how long it takes. It depends on the time that she spends at that time. For Boup Pe Sunniwaat I spent my time on thinking how to do with the historic story that there were not content to make a scene, no words. That makes it difficult.
Question : Is there any pressure from the past success?
Answer : I thinks it wouldn't be worse than before. It may not be better but it wouldn't be worse. If it is worse, it would be because of not knowing what is better.
Question : Would you like to write the same or a new direction?
Answer : I don’t know. I write as I did before. Lakorn must be like this and tell story like this. I’ve done this for many 10 years. Nothing is a new direction. Freshness, newness would be the content that is able to make fans like it.
Question : After reading one third Promlikit, do you see they are Pope and Bella as before?
Answer : When writing the script I will let my mind free not thinking of whom they will be. For P’ Meun and Kade they will be Pope and Bella as old characters but others characters I don’t think who they are yet.
Question : Khun Nong, producer would like Pope and Bella to be young generation.
Answer : It would be like that but it must have a reason that makes them the same look and write these two characters to become Pope and Bella.
Question : Is it a difficult that it has to be the same couple in the part 2?
Answer : For me it is not. I write along the story. The difficulty belongs to the others who have to make Pope look very younger. And it is more difficult for them because this also depends on what Pope does (laugh).
Question : People are afraid when everything is ready, Bella and Pope may be too old.
Answer : Tell Pope and Bella not to make themselves old, to make themselves young all the time so I will be able to write comfortably (laugh).
Question : Do you have any pressure because there are many people waiting to see?
Answer : Not much because I believe in being PromLikit, continuity, consistency of the original story. I believe in these and believe in lakorn’s fans that they would accept because it is not different from the former one. It is a story that let us see Thai society, how Ayutthaya was both physical and cultural. There have to be more CG. In BPS there were only Wat (temples, Talad (markets) house sand the palaces. In PromLikit it has to have more. For the post-on-air phenomenon like BPS, it's hard to guess. Even the time of Boup Pe Sunniwaat we didn’t expect anything. What we expect is to satisfy people who watch it the most. The watchers are Thais. We try to make it as Thai as possible. There are many people still do not know about Thai being in Ayutthaya period. There are these things in the history but we have to filter out what is true and what is not.
From---http://www.komchadluek.net/news/ent/362964