Occupation: Screenwriter Birth: August 22, 1967
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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 ….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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.….
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….
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..
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….