Salman Rushdie says TV drama series have taken the place of novels
Booker-prizewinning novelist to write sci-fi drama for television (Showtime), citing The Wire, The Sopranos and Mad Men as an inspiration.
This should be VERY sweet.
One point he makes in the article I find very interesting:
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The idea that Rushdie might create a television show came from his US agents who suggested that he would have more creative influence than with a feature-film script.
"They said to me that what I should really think about is a TV series, because what has happened in America is that the quality – or the writing quality – of movies has gone down the plughole.
"If you want to make a $300m special effects movie from a comic book, then fine. But if you want to make a more serious movie… I mean you have no idea how hard it was to raise the money for Midnight's Children."
"In the movies the writer is just the servant, the employee. In television, the 60-minute series, The Wire and Mad Men and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist."
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Good point and something for anyone writing feature scripts to consider.
-Charles
Booker-prizewinning novelist to write sci-fi drama for television (Showtime), citing The Wire, The Sopranos and Mad Men as an inspiration.
This should be VERY sweet.
One point he makes in the article I find very interesting:
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The idea that Rushdie might create a television show came from his US agents who suggested that he would have more creative influence than with a feature-film script.
"They said to me that what I should really think about is a TV series, because what has happened in America is that the quality – or the writing quality – of movies has gone down the plughole.
"If you want to make a $300m special effects movie from a comic book, then fine. But if you want to make a more serious movie… I mean you have no idea how hard it was to raise the money for Midnight's Children."
"In the movies the writer is just the servant, the employee. In television, the 60-minute series, The Wire and Mad Men and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist."
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Good point and something for anyone writing feature scripts to consider.
-Charles