On the second day of Comic-Con At Home activities, a panel was held dedicated to the original Amazon Prime Video series. Upload, whose first season premiered on May 1.

Created by Greg Daniels (The Office), Upload is a science fiction comedy that is about a future where people can avoid natural death by transferring their consciousness to a virtual world, developed by highly advanced technology, although not accessible to the entire population.

The protagonist of the story, Nathan, is a young programmer who, after a fatal car accident, chooses to migrate to virtual terrain; specifically (and thanks to the support of his wealthy girlfriend) to Lakeview, one of the most sought-after artificial paradises on the market.

The series is based on all the technological aspects that define our life and current interactions (apps, social networks, mobile devices), diverting them to the point of satire and applying them to completely unusual situations; many of them related to the particular functioning of the digital beyond.

However, in the days when Upload was conceived, dependence on technology was nowhere near as intense as it is now

In the first few minutes of the Upload panel in Comic-Con At Home, Greg Daniels He was questioned about the divergences between the finally released show and the projects management idea, since it began to circulate in the writers mind since the 90s (when he works on Saturday Night Live).

[Upload] its not as much as the original idea, said Daniels. The original idea was really inspired by ads for CD players that were barely hitting the marketSo it was a long time ago. It was the idea of going digital from analog.

And jokingly added:

Im a very old comedy writer. The original idea was conceived when I realized that you could have a gramophone without the wax cylinder to record sound. That opened my eyes.

It was not until fifteen years later that the project would begin to take on greater shape, based on the technological advances of the new century.

I did not start with this version [la definitiva] but until 2014 , stressed Daniels. Then I had a chance to include all the big tech companies that are probably still around. In fact, the last time I did one of these panels at a Comic-Con, I was hosting the People of Earth show. They asked me what I was doing there and I said, Well, Im practicing directing for this other science fiction project Im working on. This [Upload] It turns out to be THAT another sci-fi project.

Enter here to see the full panel for FREE, where the cast of the series also met: Robbie Amell (Nathan), Andy Allo (Nora), Kevin Bigley (Luke), Allegra Edwards (Ingrid) and Zainab Johnson (Aleesha).

The ten episodes of the first season of Upload are available through Prime Video Mxico.

Comic-Con Upload

Too Guzmn I have a very bad memory. In solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.

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Greg Daniels talks about the origins of Upload - Explica