Screenwriter Dan Erickson was inspired to create Severance while working at tiresome office jobs and wishing to skip from workday to off-hours without remembering the monotony. Erickson sent his pilot for the show to Ben Stiller, whose production company took on the project. The tone of the series is influenced by such films as The Truman Show (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), and the Matrix trilogy, as well as the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot (1952).
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