You’ve spent a career focused on film development, and currently have a first-look movie deal at Warner Bros. after your exit as studio chief, what was the calculation to expand your banner to TV?
I just think some of the best storytelling that’s happening on the planet right now is happening in television. And the talent that is creating that those stories, the storytellers, aren’t really, as far as I can see, necessarily discriminating against film or television. They’re happy to work in both mediums. So as a producer, your job is to find talented people and to hold onto them and not let them go. And if they are going to go into television, you should go there with them.
What’s behind the name of your company, Fireside?
The theory is that storytelling started in caves with the invention of fire, and you had to wait
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