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Tag: TVWriter™
Are Marvel’s Superhero Movies Really a Kind of Big Screen TV Series?
You betcha! And, taken that way they’re one hell of a lot of fun. Although the writer below doesn’t say it in so many words, it’s clear that she gets it:
Emily S. Whitten: Marvel Movies: Are They Going Too Far?
I suppose we could call this a follow-up or at least sister piece to last week’s column, in which I interviewed the fantastic Cleolinda Jones, author of Movies in Fifteen Minutes, about her experiences with comic book movies. Cleo noted that she tends to be more interested in Marvel characters because “Marvel has been so much more pro-active about getting movies made and characters out there;” which is true. Let’s look at some numbers for live action comic book movies, just for kicks.
Dan Harmon Cops a Plea
We think. Well, actually, he’s bragging but phrasing it as a kind of mea culpa. Which proves Dan’s a helluva writer. (But his statement could have been funnier, you know?) Anyway:
‘Community’s’ Dan Harmon Opens Up about Being Fired, Being Lured and His Big Regret – by Lacey Rose
“I would have fired me.”
Dr. Dre Gets the Network Development Deal You/We Didn’t
FX has signed Dr. Dre, known primarily as a rapper-record producer-record executive-entrepreneur, to develop a script for a one-hour drama. In this case “develop” doesn’t mean “write” because there’s already another writer involved, Sidney Quashie.
The circumstances here indicate that Quashie, who isn’t pictured here even though we like to highlight the writers in these deals whenever possible because we couldn’t find his pic on the web, didn’t have the pull to make this deal himself so he allied himself with Dr. Dre. We’re not saying this is fact, but it seems like a reasonable conjecture. After all, if Quashie did have what it takes his picture would probably be all over the web. (Because, children, that’s at least one of the things it takes.)
All we’ve been able to find out about the series is that it’s set in L.A. and is about music and gangsters. Here’s hoping everything gels and the show and its personnel make it through the development process and onto the air without ticking off any real gangsters.
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