***The pilot episode originally aired on the CW on October 10, 2012 at 8 p.m. EST. What follows is a love triangle between myself, the CW, and Oliver Queen.***
When a movie based on comic book characters makes $1.5 billion worldwide, everyone wants a piece of the action, right? Especially when you have your own catalog of cool characters, and you have yet to make that much. Being shown up by your competition is never a good thing.
Finally, somebody who tells it like it is:
Don’t mess with the writer of THELMA AND LOUISE, doods. For any number of very good reasons. (Hey, she created NASHVILLE too.)
Academy Award Winning Writer Callie Khouri Slams Movies About Women As Relegated to Trash Heap – by Melissa Silverstein
Callie Khouri gave the movie business a lot of years of her life. It’s been an up and down relationship. The up – winning an Academy Award for writing Thelma and Louise. The down – wanting to direct and getting pigeon holed into the chick flick box because she had made a movie about women.
…This just in via e-mail from Final Draft:
In other words, if you have any version of FD other than the latest one and you upgrade your PC to Win 8…hey, dood, you’re screwed – ‘cuz an upgrade to that one program is going to cost twice as much as your new operating system.
So there I was, looking through this site so I could nod, Godlike, and say to myself, “It is good.” And while, yes, I thought TVWriter™ looked pretty damn good I also had this nagging feeling: “Something’s missing.”
The same nagging feeling I would have each time I finished the first draft of a script for, oh, HAWAII FIVE-0 or STREETS OF SAN FRANCISO or THE FALL GUY or MIKE HAMMER or any of the other shows I’ve written/produced.
It’s a feeling I hate. This tingling “What’s wrong?” sensation. Because it’s a call to action. I can’t go forward – can’t do anything else in the world – until I figure out the problem and fix it.