Marc Guggenheim
Marc Guggenheim
Marc Guggenheim is an American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, as well as the writer of Green Lantern, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth24 September 1970
CountryUnited States of America
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Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.
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Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.
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I noticed that 'Lost' had sort of worn out our welcome; because of 'Lost,' audiences were no longer being patient with slow reveals: they wanted answers quickly, and they wanted story to develop much faster.
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The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.
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Your subconscious is always working in the background, unlocking things and solving problems.
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As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.
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The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
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I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
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I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
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As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'
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I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.
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Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.