The Netflix involvement helps offset the costs associated with producing an ambitious series set in space. Netflix will co-produce and have first-run rights to the show outside of the U.S. Martin will be credited as an exec producer, though he is not expected to have a heavy hand in Nightflyersgiven his overall deal with HBO, where he’s currently co-writing two of the four potential Game of Thrones follow-ups in the works. Andrew McCarthy will be a producer-director on the project. Robert Jaffe, who penned the feature film based on Martin’s novel, is set as a producer. Neuhauser of Lloyd Ivan Miller Productions. Smith) and Doug Liman ( Suits) of Hypnotic Alison Rosenzweig and Michael Gaeta ( Jacob’s Ladder) of Gaeta Rosenzweig Films and Lloyd Ivan Miller and Alice P. Exec producers also include Gene Klein ( Suits), David Bartis ( Mr. He hopes the ongoing WGA strike, which officially began May 2, will see the abolishment of mini rooms once and for all, with more up-and-coming writers having hands-on experience with productions.Jeff Buhler ( Jacob’s Ladder) penned the script and executive produces the UCP drama alongside Daniel Cerone ( The Blacklist), who will serve as showrunner. “There is no film school in the world that could have taught me as much about television production as I learned on ‘Twilight Zone’ during that season and a half,” Martin wrote. Martin credited his first Hollywood job as a writer on “The Twilight Zone” for changing his own career trajectory for the better. The junior writers? They’re not there. Once they delivered their scripts and did a revision of two, they were paid, sent home, their salary ended. They are off looking for another gig. If the series gets another season, maybe they will be brought back. Maybe they won’t. Maybe they can’t, since they are off in another mini room for another show. If they do get brought back, they may get a promotion…but that’s not guaranteed.” The showrunner and his second, maybe his second and his third, take it from there. show is greenlit (or not, some shows never get past the room) and sent into production.

He continued, “The way it works now, a show gets put in development, the showrunner assembles a ‘mini room,’ made up of a couple of senior writers and a couple newcomers, they meet for a month or two, beat out the season, break down the episodes, go off and write scripts, reassemble, get notes, give notes, rewrite, rinse and repeat and finally turn the scripts. The right to have that kind of career path. To enable new writers, young writers, and yes, prose writers, to climb the same ladder…Streamers and shortened seasons have blown the ladder to splinters.” Martin added that getting rid of mini rooms is “the most important of the things that the Guild is fighting for. TV Upfronts Start with WGA Protests, Seth MacFarlane’s ‘Ted,’ and No Linda Yaccarino

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