“Chuck” show creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak as well as Chuck himself, actor Zachary Levi, lead us into the new upcoming season three of the NBC show.
Buy More Drama and the return of Jeffster, according to Schwartz:
“The Buy More will always be a dysfunctional hot bed of competing, bizarre personalities. They’re going to face their own challenges this year, cutbacks and potential management overthrows, a new assistant manager coming into the mix. Someone you may know from the show.”
Jeffster will also reunite this next season. Schwartz adds:
“Jeff actually has gotten weirder this year, if that’s even possible.”
Casey is a closet geek?!? Fedak hints on Casey’s storyline and his showdown with Superman:
“When Brandon Routh‘s character comes into the show, he’s this mysterious hot-shot guy who’s being asked to lead the team, and obviously, Casey doesn’t like answering to anybody, so there will be some friction there. A lot of friction for Casey this year is going to actually come at the Buy More, where he’s going to be given more responsibility—and without giving too much away, he may find the Buy More to be potentially his future… Casey is harboring a secret of his own that he’s kept quiet to the team, and that’s going to come into play this year as well.”
(click to embiggen- sneak peek at Angie Harmon & Brandon Routh in the Jan. 18 ep)
No more screaming like a little girl for Chuck! Zachary Levi talks about his kickin’ buttery this season:
“For two years I sat on the sidelines and watched Adam and Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah) kick bad guys’ butts and was very jealous of that. Not that Chuck should have been able to do it at that point; he was much better at running away or screaming a little girl. But now that he has this new intersect and the abilities that come with that, he is able to lend a hand in the kick buttery if you will.”
Morgan And Chuck Break Up? Levi talks about the spy life’s strain on our fave bromance:
“[Chuck’s secret spying] continues to put a strain on our bromance. It’s difficult because Chuck and Morgan (Joshua Gomez) have been best friends since they were young kids, and over the past two seasons, Chuck has had to distance and distance and distance himself from his best friend to try and keep him safe. His entire personal life is always kind of at risk depending on how much they know or how close they are to the danger he is now involved with. Also, how he is able to lie to them day in and day out starts to really have an affect on their ability to just be friends… Morgan moves into Chuck’s place, and they have a bachelor pad that’s good for a little while, but eventually it makes it worse in some ways because they are so close in proximity that Morgan sees how absent his friend and friendship are.”
Awesome gets some spy action & someone else will learn Chuck’s secret! Schwartz talks about these developments:
“Somebody else this year is going to learn Chuck’s secret. Also, Awesome (Ryan McPartlin) is going to find himself more involved on the spy side of the story, so hopefully all elements of the show feel like they’re evolving and changing and growing in really new and exciting ways.”
Fedak and Schwartz talk about the show’s other awesome guest stars, aside from Brandon Routh and Angie Harmon:
“Vinnie Jones—I don’t think he’s really done any television before, so we’re having him come in and play a bad guy and bring that sort of that Guy Richie villain energy.”
“When you’re trying to cast the Castro-like dictator, Armand Assante is the perfect guy. When you’re trying to find someone to be the kind of ominous soldier from Casey’s past, Robert Patrick [is] just fantastic.”
“If you’re Chuck on a plane, and you flash on a bad guy who you’re going to be trapped on a plane with and who you have to then defeat and that person is as terrifying as Stone Cold Steve Austin, viewers are then really on that journey with Chuck.”
(above: Stone Cold Steve Austin in the WWE ring)
Smackdown with Stone Cold! Levi taunts us with nunchucks:
“I do fight Steve Austin—and there might be nunchucks involved.”
