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
staring
At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.
highly regarded respect superhero
I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.
producers solitary
I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.
genre
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.
prefer sell soft
I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
brief came learn
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.
sooner
As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'
comics fool people programs time
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.
relaxing
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.
absolutely certain ipad paper perfectly pilot printed script
We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
both characters good whenever
Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.