Television is full of writers presenting as screenwriters – The País.com (Spain)

Ernest Hemingway used to recommend

authors interested in pursuing a career in Hollywood to throw the book industry, cogieran money rushing out and they had come “like a bat out of hell.” For years this has been the. But those who like to be contrary and more and more. Stephen King is not happy with having sold dome as a television series wrote the first episode of the second season this year. It’s something that George RR Martin has done so far in each of the seasons Game of Thrones , one episode per year: ‘The pointy end’ in the first, ‘Blackwater’ in the second, ‘ The bear & the fair maiden ‘in the third and’ The lion & the rose ‘in the fourth. For the fifth, just announced at Comic-Con in San Diego (USA) who retires as a screenwriter. Not for lack of desire, but because it takes time to finish his sixth book, The winds of winter and the series and is hot on the heels of his saga.

George RR Martin

swore that would never work on the small screen

Tom Perrotta , author of Election and Little children , is now the creator (with Damon Lindelof) Series The leftovers, also based on its own book. Robert Kirkman, comic book writer and creator of The Walking Dead is also actively involved in the scripts of the series. Elwood Reid, and Nic Pizzolatto David Benioff, showrunners The Bridge, True Detective and Game of Thrones respectively, are also novelists.

It is easy to wonder why this explosion tucked novelists to screenwriters. And even easier to think that they feel threatened in a time that is considered to showrunners to the creators of the series, as new writers. But the real reasons are much more colorful and pedestrians. For example, King, motivated by pure jealousy. “I knew RR Martin had written several episodes of Game of Thrones and gave me jealous,” admitted the Los Angeles Times is an author who would say it has everything including some of the best known works of contemporary culture, whether on paper or on screen, as Carrie or glow. In addition to the jealous King he possessed the desire to have a little more control in the series, marking the course of the season, writing the screenplay for his own hand. “It was a vote of confidence for the series, the best way to prove who believes in the show,” admitted to this newspaper Mike Vogel, star of the series. In his opinion, the touch King has given this season dome a “creepy and fun” while air getting imbue a greater “power of suggestion” that will be developed over of the season.

Stephen King participated in ‘The Dome’ by pure envy

This is also the desire to Perrotta. Bring the series beyond the 400 pages of his novel, resemble nineteenth-century novelists, who wrote these serials were always a few steps ahead of your readers. Now it’s viewers wanting to know the world of possibilities that will offer The leftovers as a series. For as its creator and writer says, “there are many more stories to tell.”

What Martin has more crime because the novelist was a renegade writer who vowed never to return to the medium after working in television writing episodes for The Outer Limits or Beauty and the Beast. But now, if I had time, I would like to make “three or four” scripts per season. Do not cheat. Therefore not expected to have more power to control a series like Game of Thrones . Quite the contrary, in The bear & The maiden fair had to put the bear (the bear) in the title when the episode inherited a plantigrade another chapter that did not give them time to include that part of the plot and written by Benioff.

“When I asked if they would be interested in writing a script I said no because it did not work well in groups. When nobody touches me write a comma “said El Pais writer Diana Gabaldon referring to new Outlander series based on his own book series. But those who think the opposite, as Carlton Cuse, one of the creators of Lost and now responsible for adapting the novel by Guillermo del Toro, The Strain . “Write television has become the best way to tell a story because it’s a collaboration. Sitting in a room, alone, to write a novel sounds like a toothache, “summarized one of the most sought after artists today.