I had written this pilot for Extant, and I didn't really know anybody I could send it to, so I thought well maybe if I win this contest, it'll help get some notoriety. So I entered the TrackingB TV Pilot Contest.
I knew maybe like two people who were working in Hollywood, but nobody that I could really send my scripts to and nobody who could really do anything with it.
Then I eventually moved to Los Angeles when I was in my late 30s. Writing a tonne of scripts and nothing was quite working, although I just kept at it. And for the next 20 years after I left college, I was acting in shows and I was writing and making my own films. I studied musical theatre the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. Yeah! I was kind of one of those proverbial 20-year overnight success stories. There’s an interesting story on how you got the script made, wasn’t there? So that is the story between Molly and her son Ethan throughout the course of the first season and the second season is an evolution of that. But in order for them to be invested in our survival, we have to form a connection to them. Then maybe the only thing that's going to be able to save us is a being that isn't capable of being manipulated that way because they're a synthetic being.
But the story that I wanted to tell is could they ultimately be our salvation and how do we get there? If we're being threatened by this new entity that attacks us via our physiology, through what makes us human through our hopes, dreams, and emotions. About robots turning on us, and ultimately leading to our destruction. What was really interesting when I created the show was there are all these questions about artificial intelligence and lifelike androids, and science fiction has a long, rich history of these kinds of stories. So really the show is about the existence now of these three different life forms the title Extant is the opposite of extinct and so it really is about all of us vying for survival, now that these three life forms are put into conflict. Her husband John is the designer of this revolutionary, entirely lifelike version of androids he called humanichs, and he has created a child called Ethan, who has become their son. When she comes back home, she makes this shocking discovery that somehow, miraculously, she is carrying a child. Mickey Fisher: The show is about an astronaut named Molly Woods who goes to space on a solo mission she's up there for a little over a year. STARBURST: Could you tell us what the premise of Extant is?
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I think the comedy genre has the biggest standard deviation for average ratings.The hit sci-fi thriller series Extant is heading to Horror Channel, so we caught up with Mickey Fisher, the writer of the show to find out about the story, having his first show made by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Studios and the writers’ room… Franklin at the black list actually came up with statistics that back this up too. I will say that comedy is THE MOST SUBJECTIVE GENRE OUT THERE. That being said, if you believe what you've done is great and have gotten good feedback, send it to them regardless of previous winners. Some places just seem to go after certain types of material. This is a good thing to do for not only tracking b, but ANY contest. re: tracking b taste on pilots: all I can tell you is to look at their previous winners of their pilot contest. Agents/Managers will help you get those reads easy, then set up meetings for you.Ģ. That being said, without having a rep it is often very difficult to get read by meaningful people in the industry. It's definitely possible to sell something without a rep! It happens, especially for lower budget stuff in the indie world. Re: TrackingB TV Contest ('13 contest resulted in EXTANT at CBS with Spielberg)ġ.
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