RODMAN: The way "Naked City" and "Route 66" were made, there were two guys. UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: There are 8 million stories in the naked city. He also grew up as the son of a screenwriter, and he's seen how dramatically the process has changed.ĭEL BARCO: Beginning in the late 1950s, Rodman's father was a writer for the TV shows "Route 66" and "Naked City." He's also a professor of screenwriting at the University of Southern California, and he's a former president of the Writers Guild of America West. The tasks were utterly divided up between ideation, writing, on-set writing, on-set producing.ĭEL BARCO: Rodman is a working screenwriter. There were just assignments that came in by text, and my work was finished the day that photography commenced. HOWARD RODMAN: There was no room full of writers. Howard Rodman says that's how he was asked to work on a high-profile hourlong drama that premiered this month. Overburdened showrunners, directors, actors and others are expected to finish the rewriting, they say. They work separately from each other online in so-called mini rooms, writing scripts before a production begins and then getting dismissed from the process. Chang says that's how it should be, but this kind of on-the-fly writing and rewriting is becoming extinct.ĭEL BARCO: Writers on the picket lines in Hollywood this summer say streaming services like Netflix and Amazon are increasingly hiring writers like workers on an assembly line. YAHLIN CHANG: You have to have a writer ready at a moment's notice to rewrite a scene.ĭEL BARCO: Sometimes, a scene needs to be cut for time, or an actor wants to tweak a line. It's also crucial for them to be on set during the filming process, says Yahlin Chang, a showrunner for "The Handmaid's Tale." And, like, does this fit with what we just shot in the last episode?ĭEL BARCO: Connelly says that means writers are ideally always involved in everything from preproduction to postproduction. MICHAEL CONNELLY: And there's not a day that goes by in a production where the writer doesn't have a question to answer. He's been on the picket lines this summer. MANUEL GARCIA-RULFO: (As Mickey Haller) Some do, yes.ĭEL BARCO: Writer Michael Connelly created "The Lincoln Lawyer" and also "Bosch: Legacy" and two other series. LISAGAY HAMILTON: (As Judge Mary Holder) The Lincoln Lawyer - that what they call you? (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE LINCOLN LAWYER") MANDALIT DEL BARCO, BYLINE: Screenwriting, for TV especially, has been a collaborative process starting with an idea - say, a drama about a handsome Los Angeles defense attorney who works out of his car. But one of the core issues on the table is also an existential question - what exactly does a screenwriter do? From Hollywood, NPR's Mandalit del Barco has this story. They're demanding better pay, equity and protections from the rise of AI. Film and TV writers are now in their eighth week of a strike against major Hollywood studios.
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