Ever wonder how reboots of classic – or at least popular – films go bad? Here’s an insight into what went wrong with the 2018 reboot of Predator. Hint: It all began with amazingly faulty thinking from supposedly intelligent businessmen. And then there was, you know, the writing….
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This being the week after Marvel and Disney proved themselves the undisputed Emperors of cinema superheroes, we think it’s time to call attention to another comic book empire – the DC Comics TV universe, by any criteria way more successful than Marvel’s TV push and run by one amazing dood – Greg Berlanti:
[Last March’s] INTV conference in Jerusalem, Israel kicked off with a discussion with Greg Berlanti, who chatted with WME Partner, Scripted TV Development Marc Korman about his ascent from his childhood in Rye, NY as a puppeteer and head of the AV Club to having 15 TV series on the air at the same time through his production shingle (a record for a TV producer) and a Warner Bros. TV deal worth $400M in cash guarantees.
Here’s what going on, socially and professionally, at the Writers Guild of America West this month:
Story and plot are the same thing, see, except when they aren’t. Hmm, sounds like somebody needs to clarify that, so why not the maker of this little video, i.e., “Frustrated Jacob” hisself?
Walter White could well be one of the most important characters in the history of television, and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan one of the medium’s most important writers.
Not so much because “they” invented anything new but because the popularity of the series has meant that its techniques have become indelibly stamped into the brains of new writers, leaving their imprint on just about every new show of TV’s current “Golden Age.”
Give that a think while you read on: