«Kaleidoscope» is an American heist drama television miniseries created by Eric Garcia for Netflix.
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- Kaleidoscope is an American heist drama television miniseries.
- It was created by Eric Garcia.
- The series consist of eight-parts.
- The series centers around master thief Leo Pap (Giancarlo Esposito) and his crew attempting an epic heist worth $7 billion, but betrayal, greed and other threats undermine their plans.
- Kaleidoscope was released on January 1, 2023, by Netflix.
- The story of Kaleidoscope is loosely inspired by real-life events surrounding Hurricane Sandy when $70 billion in bonds went missing from downtown Manhattan.
- This series is non-linear, which means that no matter in which order the episodes are watched, the entire story still makes sense.
- According to the creators, due to the nonlinear storytelling structure, the show can be watched in any order with only one rule: that the episode “White” has to be watched last, as the season finale.
- A group of butterflies is called a Kaleidoscope.
- Each episode features a butterfly or makes mention of them.
- The order of episodes for this non-linear series is randomized for each Netflix subscriber.
- The order of episodes here isn’t intended to be ‘canonical’ and instead is simply the chronological order of the narrative.
- The good Dr’s Cadillac in episode one is actually a ’68, not a ’71 or ’72, as discussed in episode.
- The site of the heist/vault is identified in the series as “505 Wall Street”, but the building that was used for filming is actually 28 Liberty Street (formerly Chase Manhattan Plaza) in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street. Ironically, the building across the street from 28 Liberty is the Federal Reserve Bank of NY (it appears in the background of many scenes), which houses the single largest gold vault in the world – though not the target of their heist.
- On September 16, 2021, it was revealed that Netflix had given an eight-episode order to a series.
- The first title was Jigsaw.
- Eric Garcia serves as creator, writer, and executive producer, along with EPs Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Jordan Sheehan, Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Justin Levy, and Russell Fine.
- The series is produced by Scott Free Productions and Automatik Entertainment.
- It was announced that Everardo Gout and Mairzee Almas would each direct two episodes.
- It was also announced Robert Townsend would direct multiple episodes of the series.
- Kaleidoscope is structured in a non-linear order so that viewers can choose the order in which they watch the episodes leading up to the finale.
- Filming began at Netflix Studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn on September 1, 2021.
- It is the first production at the Bushwick studio.
- Filming also took place at 28 Liberty in Manhattan’s financial district.
- The series wrapped on March 16, 2022.
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