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
creating creatively fulfilled generate hollywood writers
If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.
prefer sell soft
I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
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I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.
The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
genre
The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
afford comic limited stuff tv
All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
believe enjoying prevent
I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
develop formed regard writers
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.
thinking giving want
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.
character spy indiana
In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.
jobs thinking the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.
adventure superhero television
I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is...part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.
thinking people television
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
writing television way
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.