Recent content by MikeKardec

I haven't read anything about the MI film but I doubt anyone went without pay! The negative downstream effects might be more like losing the next job because the schedule no longer wrapped at the right moment. Generally, however, everyone is ready to take a break, if they can afford it, when a...

You are right! I'll choose to remain both open and un-argumentative.

No Kidding? Like a carnival, carnival? What did you do? My Dad was a carny briefly. I too studied the arts, at an Art School that specialized in Avant Garde art, lots of big ideas but also an emphesis on actually doing things. It was a pretty good education in learning to think, problem...

Amen! We are going to PAY for all those liberal arts degrees we funded. We need engineers and scientists. It really bugs me when the kids I'm around complain about the world's problems, yet refuse to educate themselves in the methods to solve them. I also get a blank stare when I mention...

Revisiting the 2 Season TV Series Manhattan, a fictionalization of the story of the making of the atomic bomb. I have to go into some technical details in a thing I'm writing and thought I'd see if there were any lessons to be learned. Anyway, great cast, great look, well written. It does a...

I was advising a friend who works in the comic book industry and I found myself recommending F.I. Brown as an example of a writer who specialized in ultra short short stories. Rereading a bunch of them right now and I'd forgotten what a tough format this was. Very impressive! Late Pulp Era...

Some interesting thoughts here! The metric is different if you have to "sell" the film or TV project! Money is merely secondary in the film and TV business, The first consideration is a distribution pathway. There are only a few, and they are the real gatekeepers. If you have distribution...

The process of "finding an audience" in film and TV is best exemplified by what has happened with Yellowstone. Westerns are successful in literature to a certain extent, an extent that doesn't change too much over the years. Taylor Sheridan starts writing "modern westerns" and rapidly...

The biggest issue with these Pulp concepts is that filmmakers keep confusing the genre with comics. This was even an issue with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and continued to get worse as the series went on. It's actually easy to do correctly. Take it as seriously as you can, there's a bit of...

I think I'd go to Lisbon. Both Spain and Portugal are countries that have great bookstores and a way of life that is getting harder to access in France. I was in Lisbon in 2018 and it was reasonably priced (for Europe) and beautiful, like a amazing melding of Europe and California. The best...

Yes, definitely! An updated version would step away from anything that put a target on their backs I'd argue this part, or maybe not, they were bringing their odd corporate/governmental "socialism" to the world one country at a time. Not interested in communism's egalitarian sales pitch...

Oh, yeah. Thank God for Google Earth. Greatest research tool ever! I hate it that no place is mysterious any longer, google as a company scares the merde out of me, but it's SO damn useful.

The great writing challenge for this week: Come up with an evolved Nazi agenda for the post war world. As in, if you were a smart, well funded, organization that wanted to be National Socialism 2.0, what would you be doing? What would your goals be and how would you accomplish them. I've...

Of course. As it should, or you'd never have gone back to school. Still, I remain interested, perhaps more interested!

Just wait a year or two. There's hard times a-comin' and all the wealth and free time that allowed the over-supply to accumulate may dry up. Seriously, when generations are pursuing their dream of writing, acting, and studying stuff that will never make any money, it means there is serious...