Some recent articles on TV, TV writing, and the TV biz that we regret not posting earlier. But here they are now.
Well, the opening paragraphs anyway:
HUSBANDS – REDEFINING MARRIAGE
Tag: online TV writing workshop
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”
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.
LB’s Poetry: The Indian People See Things No One Else Does
NOTE FROM LB:
In the early ’90s, when I had had enough of Hollywood’s reality as opposed to the dreams that had driven me to go there and succeed, I did when any totally impractical and probably insane person would: I packed my clothing, comic books, drum kit, and dog into an SUV and drove off to the Southwest to see if I could track the magic I had been writing about for so long but never experienced. I found it, kind of like this…
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