Creating a prequel story to Psycho is a bold move, given how beloved the film is, but A&E's upcoming Bates Motel is notably taking the story of a young Norman Bates and moving it to the present day. Speaking about Bates Motel at the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour today, executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) said that it was an easy call for him to move the series to the present, rather than the 1950s (to line up with the 1960 film), explaining, "The idea of doing a contemporary prequel made it clear that what we were doing was something that was inspired by Psycho but not an homage to Psycho, and that was a big difference to us."
He later added that doing Bates Motel as a period piece "was not interesting to me. Again, I think the idea of an homage is just not… that's just not engaging to me. So it felt like making that fundamental decision to make the story contemporary gave us the freedom to really take these characters wherever we wanted to." Cuse noted that by the end of the series, "In some general form, we are going to catch up with a version of the character from the movie," but not having it set in the past made it so they weren't bound absolutely to the continuity of the film and to have everything exactly line up.
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