I hear you. Show runners no is a unique skill set. He may suck at it, but I am excited at the thought of having his vision and sensibility in this thing.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 8:35 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 5:22 AM PGage <[email protected]> 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/CAJE-FiGtOD9QNH9mA6BJf7_bkStnsGQoZ53Pr2r_JneA7yp73w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGtOD9QNH9mA6BJf7_bkStnsGQoZ53Pr2r_JneA7yp73w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAKGtkYLAxUrFQ6VM284es1vOe0UhEXY9A5qm2VXK0%2B0nkKohJw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
