Interview: How Steven Universe Future Prepared Kate Tsang To Create Marvelous And The Black Hole
Marvelous and the Black Hole is a coming-of-age comedy following an unexpected friendship between a dispirited Chinese American teenager (Miya Cech) and an off-putting magician (Rhea Perlman). The young girl, Sammy, finds herself inspired by the group of misfit magicians and allows Margot to mentor her and help her find light amid her personal traumas and dysfunctional family.
Written and directed by Kate Tsang, the movie is a refreshing addition to the saturated genre as she approaches it with careful hands and the most genuine intentions — drawing inspiration from her personal life experiences. Working as a writer on Steven Universe Future andAdventure Time: Distant Lands, the Emmy nominee adopted a few lessons she's learned from the two coming-of-age animation series to pull together her feature film. In this interview, we talk about the magical figure in her own life, the helpful inspirations she received from her other projects, the main message she’d like audiences to take away from the movie, and more.
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Game Rant: What drew you to the craft of magic?
Kate Tsang: When I wrote the script, I didn't know much about magic. I loved magic as a storytelling device, so I had to dive in and do research on what it's actually about. As I did a deep dive into it, I started geeking out. I ended up loving magic myself. Fundamentally, what I love about it is that it's about transformation, wonder, and possibility. A lot of this film is about trying to find those things again, after really difficult times.
GR: Do you have a favorite magician movie or real-life magician that sparked this idea for you?
Tsang: The
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