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
prefer sell soft
I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.