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Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Terry Moore’s horror comic, Rachel Rising, is headed for television, and the producer, Alcon Television Group, is looking for a showrunner/writer. So you know what to do, kids. (Yeah, like quick, get a credit, and then have your people call.)
- Matt Williams (ROSEANNE) & David McFadzean (HOME IMPROVEMENT) and George Lopez are writing SAINT GEORGE, a Latino family sitcom, for FX. (It’s a 10 episodes now, 90 later if we like it deal, ala ANGER MANAGEMENT, so don’t worry they’ll need other writers too down the line.)
- Travis Beacham (PACIFIC RIM) is writing the pilot for BALLISTIC CITY at AMC. (According to io9 it’s “crime on a generation ship. And know what? We definitely can live with that.)
- Seth Zvi Rosenthal’s (HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA) pilot script for DOWN LO, a drama about a gay rapper to be produced by singer John Legend, has been bought by HBO. (No word yet on whether its greenlighted as a series or a pilot or something for the HBO execs to wipe their noses on.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Steven S. DeKnight (SPARTACUS, SMALLVILLE) is developing INCURSION for Starz, about a future military force fighting aliens on a different planet each week. (STAR TREK goes all STARSHIP TROOPERS? Cool. )
- David Feeney (BEN AND KATE) will be writing like mad at 20th TV for the next couple of years thanks to an overall deal to develop new projects and become a writer-producer on NEW GIRL. (Um, wasn’t BEN AND KATE a failure creatively and ratingswise? And isn’t NEW GIRL considered a success? So, um, why…?)
- Ben Epstein (TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU) is writing a 1-hour drama for MTV about stuff happening in a theme park. (“Details are still being fleshed out.” Translation: “Wow! A theme park, how could we resist the high concept?” Oy!)
- Neil LaBute (IN THE COMPANY OF MEN feature film) is writing FULL CIRCLE for DirectTV. (Where, evidently, they’ve decided to get into the series biz without having to hire people who might actually want to, you know, get paid.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Time once aain to call your agent. The History Channel is looking for writers for two projects. The first is a mini-series about escape artist Harry Houdini, starring Adrien Brody. The second is a mini about that daring group of radicals – Sam Adams, John Hancock, John Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry and good ole Benny Arnold – who sparked the American Revolution. (Gee, we wondered how that happened.)
- Glen Mazzara (THE WALKING DEAD) is writing a prequel to THE SHINING for Warner Brothers. No word on whether it’s for a feature film or TV. (Congrats, Glen. No Robert Kirkman to get in your face on this project, eh? Although we hear that Steven King can always be counted on to have a contribution or three.)
- B.J. Novak (THE OFFICE) is now officially a writer, having made a 7-figure deal for a memoir type book…which certainly is more than most career writers will ever get. (Which means that the book is guaranteed to become a television project with the first 3 months of its publication. Yeah, that’s a prediction. You can quote us.)
- Dreamworks Animation is planning a feature film and TV series based on the once-huge Trolls toy franchise. (Which means it’s time for you to write something incredibly stupid and get your agent to show it as a sample so you have a shot at one of the gigs.)
- Suzette Couture (JESUS) has sold BABYSELLERS as a sequel to the Lifetime movie HUMAN TRAFFICKING, proving that nobody ever went broke appealing to the absolutely worst instincts in any audience. (Don’t be jealous. Lifetime pay is crap.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Eric Ledgin & Michael Blieden (both of LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON) are writing the pilot for IFC’s INTERNATIONAL PLAN, based on their friendship. (Which we’re sure is unique and extraordinary, right, kids?)
- Megan Mullally (WILL & GRACE) & Tina Kapousis (newbie) are creating and writing TWO IDIOTS for the very same IFC, about two whacky women living in the Beverly Hills Hotel with their butler/shared boyfriend. (Because that too will be a unique and extraordinary relationship, we’re sure y’all agree.)
- Jamie Foxx (yeppers, that Jamie Foxx) is writing/producing/directing an unnamed Syfy horror anthology series. (Which seems perfect to us because word has it that Jamie’s a bit of a horror himself…and so multi-talented.)
- Michael Perry (THE RIVER) is writing a 4-hour miniseries adaptation of Larry Niven’s classic s-f novel Ringworld for Syfy. (And we’re hoping against hope that it’ll be better than that channel’s attempt at another s-f classic, RIVERWORLD.)
- Michael DeLuca (THE SOCIAL NETWORK) is adapting Arthur C. Clark’s Childhood’s End for Syfy. (Which could be wonderful or cornball as hell…but certainly unique and extraordinary, we’re absolutely sure.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Graham Gordy & Michael D. Fuller (RECTIFY) are writing the pilot for Cinemax’s QUARRY, based on a series of novels by Max Allan Collins (who, incidentally, is 10 times the writer either of these guys could ever be. RECTIFY? Come on!).
- Alfonso H. Moreno (NCIS) has sold his spec science fiction drama pilot to Syfy (and it’s about a couple of people on the run cuz, you know, that’s all viewers care about, right?).
- Ryan Murphy (GLEE) & Lauren Gussis (DEXTER) want some network or other to buy their script for an “exploration of sexuality” (and we, licentious pigs that we are, are right here rooting for that to happen. “Pigs,” “rooting,” get it? Huh?).
- A couple actors named Steve Carell and James Gandolfini are looking for a writer for BONE WARS, a comedy about rival paleontologists who keep sabotaging each other’s discoveries..and it’s a true story (so get out your samples, kids, and accost Carell and Gandolfini at the next red light, or while they’re eating dinner, or shopping. You can make it happen…go,go,go!).