Well, analog Sorkin is richer and has a warmer tone. (Sorry - I've been watching a LOT of MST3K lately)
On Friday, June 28, 2019 at 11:35:05 AM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 5:22 AM PGage <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Wow! This gets me very excited. Chabon qualifies as one of America’s >> greatest living novelists. He is original, witty, thoughtful, capable of >> being both bitter and sentimental. >> > > This is the part I'm not sure about. He wasn't hired to be head writer. > And his strength is in the novel form and not stage/movies/TV. He could be > an analog to Sorkin but without massive TV writing experience he might not > get similar results. My best scenario is Chabon gets a staff of experienced > Trek writers and he makes sure they don't fall into hacky habits. In other > words he reviews scripts and instructs writers to do rewrites with better > character development, etc. The worst case is he can't find his way as a > showrunner and the series becomes another minor Trek series. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/988815aa-6da6-4b3e-a416-fa425d5c4b07%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
