Occupation: Screenwriter Birth: August 22, 1967
Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" w….
And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to introdu….
As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow.….
So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons….
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east w….
We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an original screenplay, "Ra….
To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They….
Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week..
Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic un….
Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's….
With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some….
They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week….
You know what's funny about the people who say mean things? There's a certain part of Twitter that is literally shouting into the void, and then some….
Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely learn a lot and for I ….
I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way….