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.

METROPOLIS Restored!

by Larry Brody

No, not Batman’s Superman’s Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic. If you’ve got any interest at all in:

  • Science Fiction
  • Cinema History
  • Soaring Imagination
  • Amazing Visuals
  • Hot Heavy Metal Babes

…you’ll get yourself to Netflix and watch till your eyeballs melt.


And then you’ll go to Kino International (the folks who did all the restoration work) and immerse yourself in fanboy heaven till your brain erupts in Metropolitan rebellion. read article

A 4th of July Message from (gulp) M-my G-generation

by Larry Brody

…Except that it’s really by John Ostrander, one of my favorite writers of comic books and other wondrous things:

John Ostrander: Displaced
by John Ostrander 

One of the brilliant moves that Stan Lee made in the early issues of The Avengers was to bring Captain America from the 40s into what was then the modern day. He had Cap frozen in ice from the end of WWII until he was thawed out. Cap hadn’t aged, Stan didn’t bring a new guy into the costume, this was the same Steve Rogers and he became a man out of time. A hero of one era moved to a time when just about everyone he knew was dead. And the world as he knew it was gone… read article

“Silver Surfers” aren’t What You Think They are

by Larry Brody

…or maybe they’re what you think but not what I thought.

THE SILVER SURFER by Lee & Kirby

See the picture above? No surprise there. That’s Stan Lee & Jack Kirby’s – and Larry Brody’s too – Silver Surfer.

But… read article

TVWriter™ Posts of the Week

Here they are, the TVWriter™ posts TeamTVWriter likes best for the week ending today, June 29th:

What Writers Can Learn from Saving Hope (Part I) read article

Josh Olson Will Read Your $#@! Script

…For a price, of course. But, no, he’s not anywhere even close to selling out.

Josh Olson – Newbies’ Anti-Christ?

Josh Olson Will Read Your Effing Script — For a Price
by Tony Artega 

One of our all-time most read blog posts ever is screenwriter Josh Olson’s delicious rant, “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.”

 The piece has been so popular over the last three years, at this point Josh is probably better known as the “Fucking Script” guy than for being nominated for an Oscar for writing the script for A History of Violence. read article