What was the environment like on True Detective, season one? The first season of True Detective was like lightning in a bottle. We had two huge movie stars doing television. There was a visionary director and a firebrand writer. Together, they created one of the best seasons of television ever. But what was it really like behind the scenes? In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Cary Fukunaga describes the "disheartening" work on the first season. “The show was presented to me in the way we pitched it around town—as an independent film made into television. The writer and director are a team. Over the course of the project, Nic kept positioning himself as if he was my boss and I was like, ‘But you’re not my boss. We’re partners. We collaborate.’ By the time they got to postproduction, people like [former HBO programming president] Michael Lombardo were giving Nic more power. It was disheartening because it didn’t feel like the partnership was fair.” Sometimes these power struggles happen, but they can be frustrating. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 23 September, 2021