San Diego Comic-Con has been celebrating all things “Severance” in a very big way, with fans even allowed to go through their own Lumon Industries severed orientation. You know, for the people who really want an existential crisis to go with their convention festivities. /Film’s own Jeremy Mathai was at the “Severance” panel today, and Dan Erickson talked about the process of getting the show on screen, and how much it has evolved since that first pilot script. “The original version of the pilot had Mark waking up and Helly was more like the seasoned person who comes in and is sort of, almost like an older sibling character,” he said. “And we switched it around for various reasons but yeah, there were a lot of differences between there and here.”

Stiller commented that the script was even weirder if that can be believed. “Yeah, I think the original was a little more like, acid trippy, than even what it is,” Erickson said. “At one point there was a pair of disembodied legs that ran by … and then the legs didn’t make the cut.” The crowd couldn’t help but laugh at the idea, which may sound odd on paper but hey, so does the “Waffle Party” and we all know how that turned out.

Season 1 of “Severance” is available to stream on Apple TV+.