How Producer Todd Black Teamed With Aaron Sorkin To Make Amazon Studios’ ‘Being The Ricardos’
“I remember early on seeing things he wrote, even plays, and going ‘Wow, this guy has a voice like nobody’s business,'” says the Oscar-nominated producer ofHowever, Black says “I never had anything good enough to bring to him.” This goes back to some sage advice Black received from Denzel Washington years ago.
Long before Escape Artists, when Black was running Mandalay Pictures, he was trying to get the rights of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, except the estate wasn’t ready at the time. In recent years, the development of such a project raised its stakes when creative executive Jenna Block walked through Black’s door. Block had written a paper on Ball’s film career, something which fascinated Black as he wasn’t that familiar with it.
“Todd asked me if I was interested in writing a movie about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz,” says Sorkin who mentions he had a cursory knowledge of the early sitcom couple initially, “The first thing that got me interested in the story was that Lucy was accused of being a Communist.” “Nobody knew that,” said Sorkin which prompted him to use that as a jumping-off point for his behind-the-scenes story about the married couple.
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