✍️ Writer’s Quotes to Live By
“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.”
— Alan Moore
✍🏾 JJ Abrams Demimonde in Need of Showrunner
The search is underway for a new showrunner, because HBO's latest sci-fi epic writer Bash Doran has exited the project.
The JJ Abrams produced series Demimonde, is an epic and intimate sci-fi fantasy drama. In Bad Robot Productions fashion (Westworld and the upcoming Lovecraft Country), the storyline and pertinent details are quite hush-hush.
Demimonde is the first series created by Abrams since the 2001 ABC drama Alias.
✍🏿Writer Damon Lindelof Gave the Finger to Alan Moore to Create
The news keeps pouring out of HBO's TCA 2019 session as writer Damon Lindelof (Lost) and series creator for HBO’s upcoming Watchmen series took a moment to speak on attempting to get the holy blessing from original comic writer Alan Moore. Lindelof, who grew up consuming Moore’s work and revered him reached out to get a sign of the cross from the iconic (if adaption-averse) writer.
When that failed, Lindelof simply said “F*** you” to the whole olive-branch approach saying:
“I don’t think I have made peace with it [using Moore’s work when Moore himself doesn’t like seeing it adapted]. He has made it clear he wants no ongoing affiliation, and to not use his name to get people to watch it,” said Lindelof. “I made personal overtures to explain what we are doing, and he declined. As someone who has a very complicated relationship with my dad — I constantly need to prove myself to my father - Alan Moore is now my surrogate dad with this. I love [that] Alan has a punk rock spirit. I’m channeling his spirit to tell him, ‘F*** you; I’m doing it anyway.’”
Even though Alan Moore was asked if he wanted to consult or be apart of the discussions in some shape, way or form HBO’s president of programming, Casey Bloys says “It remains the case that he is not thrilled.”
After the trailers from Comic-Con I’m stoked for this one as Watchmen premieres this October on HBO.
✍🏻 WGA Finalizes Board Election Candidates Amid Agency Tensions
The writer’s guild is having an upcoming board of directors election, with a ton of members running for seated positions. Members chaps are chafed, running on the platform of the mishandling of the boards ongoing conflict with agencies over packaging fees and affiliated production companies.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Phyllis Nagy is running against Writers Guild of America West’s incumbent president, David Goodman, underscoring rising tensions inside the guild over its three-month standoff with agents.
“There appears to be no strategy now from the leadership,” Nagy said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week.
That seems to be the battle cry from others running as well, as writer/creator Craig Mazin prepares his WGA campaign against vice president Carl Gottlieb and incumbent Marjorie David.
He even took to his podcast “Scriptnotes,” to debate WGA’s negotiation tactics stating:
“I think that the vote that we had, the implication was ‘Give us negotiation strength so that we can negotiate a deal,’ and we haven’t negotiated anything,” he added.
There seems to be so much turmoil within the WGA as they fight amongst each other, they need to keep in mind that no one wins when the family feuds. This is stacked drama on the guild as the Hollywood agencies are sued by the WGA, seek to move the date for a hearing on motions to dismiss parts of the guild’s lawsuit.
This is simply a mess that the WGA needs to make some hard decisions and find some unison among the team.
✍🏾P.S. This race is low key turning into politics in its most feral state. (IMO)
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