Author: LB

A legendary figure in the television writing and production world with a career going back to the late ’60s, Larry Brody has written and produced hundreds of hours of American and worldwide television and is a consultant to production companies and networks in the U.S. and abroad . Shows written or produced by Brody have won several awards including - yes, it's true - Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, and the Humanitas Award.

LB: Untold Tales of the Animated SILVER SURFER TV Series Ep. 17 Teleplay

by Larry Brody

Over the past three weeks I’ve posted the scripts for Season 2 Episode 1, Episode 2, and Episode 3 of the FoxKids Network The Silver Surfer animated series for those who wondered what all of us involved in the show back in 1998 intended to come if we hadn’t been cancelled.

Today it’s the turn of Season 2 Episode 4, Rebirth.  This one’s a “Final Draft,” which incorporates a set of changed pages so that everyone involved in the prep for Season 2 was satisfied that it was ready to shoot. read article

LB: Untold Tales of the Animated SILVER SURFER TV Series Ep. 16 Script

by Larry Brody

Over the past two weeks I’ve posted the scripts for Season 2 Episode 1 and Episode 2 of the FoxKids Network The Silver Surfer animated series for those who wondered what all of us involved in the show back in 1998 intended to come if we hadn’t been cancelled.

Today it’s the turn of Season 2 Episode 3, Soul Hunter: Part Two.  This one’s a “Rev. Final Draft,” which means that everyone involved in the prep for Season 2 was satisfied that it was ready to shoot. read article

Michael Caine Teaches Acting In Film

NOTE FROM LB: Many years ago, when I was an “Executive Story Consultant” on an NBC TV series called Medical Story (like the better known Police Story except about doctors and not nearly as well known), I had the good fortune to spend an afternoon with Michael Caine, who was between shots on a film he was shooting at Burbank Studios, where Medical Story was filmed.

The film was called Harry and Walter Go To New York, and Caine’s partners in crime in a film that was itself a crime against filmmaking were James Caan and Elliott Gould. I don’t remember how I ended up in the trailer, but there I was being regaled with story after story about Caine’s career. As fine an actor as he is – and he’s very fine indeed – Caine’s stories are even better.

Whether you’re an actor, a writer, a director, or “just” a fan, this is your chance to see a master storyteller at the top of his fame. Watch and learn! (I know I did.) read article

LB: Untold Tales of the Animated SILVER SURFER TV Series Ep. 15

by Larry Brody

Last week I posted the script for Season 2 Episode 1 of the now defunct FoxKids Network The Silver Surfer animated series for those who wondered what all of us involved in the show back in 1998 intended to come if we hadn’t been cancelled.

The response to the post –  let’s face it, the response to the script, actually – was overwhelming, so here we go with Season 2 Episode 2, Soul Hunter: Part One, in which – well, the hell with a synopsis, this “revised” draft (as in it ain’t the first version but it never advanced to a place where it could be called “Final”) certainly speaks for itself: read article

LB: Untold Tales of the Animated SILVER SURFER TV Series

by Larry Brody

Well, actually these tales have indeed been told, but only in-house at Marvel Studios and the now defunct FoxKids Network because the scripts all were written early in 1999, during and shortly after the first season of The Silver Surfer Saturday morning cartoon series and intended to be produced and aired during Season Two.

Except that Season Two never happened. The show was canceled for reasons that remain unclear to me even to this day. read article