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WGAW Calendar for August, 2016

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Your union in action!

Remember the JURASSIC PARK Animated Series?

Nope, of course you don’t. Because none of us ever got to see it. Here’s the scoop:

Oh shit, wait. Guess it can’t really be a scoop after over 20 years. What say we all pretend this post was written in 1993?

John Ostrander is “Indifferent… Honest”

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by John Ostrander

Today, August 1, the Suicide Squad movie premieres in NYC and I’ll be there. I’ve watched the trailers and the hype and, I must say, I’m hyped up. From everything I can see, Davis Ayer (the writer/director) and the cast have read my work on the Squad comic and are using it. Viola Davis as Amanda Waller especially seems pulled from what I did and for me personally that’s very exciting.

I don’t expect the film to be a direct translation of the comic; this is a different medium and has different needs. I love my fans a lot but there’s not enough of them to fill a single theater for a week. The movie has to appeal to those who never heard of the comic. However, in its DNA, this is the Squad I created. At its core is the concept of The Dirty Dozen with supervillains. That was my concept. Amanda Waller was my creation. So – yeah, that’s my Squad up there.

The Squad as a comic and I suspect as a film will also reflect, to a certain degree, some of my sensibilities. The main one will be the moral tones of gray. For a long time, despite being in four colors, comics were very black and white. There were Heroes (white) and Bad Guys (black) and the Good Guys beat up the Bad Guys. Comics were very primal in their Good Vs. Evil. read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – August 1st

In case you’ve missed what’s happening at TVWriter™, the most popular blog posts during the week ending yesterday were:

Peggy Bechko’s World: Quotes for the Aspiring Scriptwriter – from one who really knows something read article

The Mirror Maze World of the Private Eye Part 2

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by Diana Black

EDITOR’S NOTE: Haven’t read Part 1 yet? You really should GO HERE

#3. First deception uncovered, usually perpetrated by the Client.

  • Q. What is this Dick embarking on?
    What dangers are looming?
    What’s different about this Dick’s journey compared with other Dicks’? How is it typical?
    Why the deception in the first place? What is the client hiding from the Dick (or from themselves)?PI-Dick-flipped
    Why the ‘red herring/s’ –
    why is the client trying to throw the Dick off the scent?

#4. Detective hassled by the cops. read article