In Hollywood, the pandemic hasn’t exactly slowed down deal-making.
On Thursday, March 12, the day Hollywood shut down, Tessa Blake was crammed in a van with seven colleagues driving around New York. Blake, a television director, was in the middle of her seven-day prep before shooting began on an episode of the CBS series, and as she drove around town scouting locations, she watched her line producer spend the day on her phone digesting the new, worse information coming from the media, from her colleagues, and from her bosses.
Recent deals have been led, unsurprisingly, by the streaming networks. “It’s who you think,” said an L.A. agent. “It’s Amazon, it’s Netflix, it’s Apple.” Hulu has been investing heavily in new material, with, according to multiple sources, three big book-to-film purchases in the past few weeks—including Zakiya Dalila Harris’ novel, which won’t be published until 2021. “That’s a big book,” said the scout, “and they snapped it up.
for seven figures. Currently, action is heating up on a big submission written by David Wright Falade and represented by Endeavor:, a Civil War drama about a biracial sergeant in an all-black regiment. “It’s being compared to Cormac McCarthy, but not as dark,” said the exec. Agents are sending out their writers to Zoom-pitch, and even submitting screenplays rather than the traditionally easier-to-sell pitches.
No one knows when the next season of television will start filming, but it’s being written right now. “I was hired for a new job the day before the world shut down,” one experienced comedy writer said. “I’m going to work in my garage every day, in a writers’ room on Zoom with some people I have never met in person.
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