TGLS wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:46 pm
Well, reading a bit too much into the background of PIC, the unstated thing here is that Goldsman wasn't the showrunner. Michael Chabon was the showrunner, who had very little experience writing for television.
Well then why did Paramount hire a guy whose only experience as a producer was a (non-SF) TV series from the previous year, and until then he was just a book writer with little filmmaking experience? Especially for a show where each episode cost around 8-9 million dollars. It's not like there aren't other more experienced and better producers out there begging for a studio to hire them.
This either smells of cronyism or someone is pulling a Springtime for Hitler.
TGLS wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:46 pm
Well, reading a bit too much into the background of PIC, the unstated thing here is that Goldsman wasn't the showrunner. Michael Chabon was the showrunner, who had very little experience writing for television.
Well then why did Paramount hire a guy whose only experience as a producer was a (non-SF) TV series from the previous year, and until then he was just a book writer with little filmmaking experience? Especially for a show where each episode cost around 8-9 million dollars. It's not like there aren't other more experienced and better producers out there begging for a studio to hire them.
This either smells of cronyism or someone is pulling a Springtime for Hitler.
I suppose his authorship and works' prominence in Hollywood gels well with the artistic vision they have for Pic.
Chabon's work, however, remains popular in Hollywood, with Rudin purchasing the film rights to The Yiddish Policemen's Union, then titled Hatzeplatz,[85] in 2002, five years before the book would be published. The same year, Miramax bought the rights to Summerland and Tales of Mystery and Imagination (a planned collection of eight genre short stories that Chabon has not yet written), each of which was optioned for a sum in the mid-six figures.[86] Chabon also wrote a draft for 2004's Spider-Man 2, about a third of which was used in the final film. Soon after Spider-Man 2 was released, director Sam Raimi mentioned that he hoped to hire Chabon to work on the film's sequel, "if I can get him,"[87] but Chabon never worked on Spider-Man 3.
