![]() ![]() You look around, you're like, man, there's like 500 TV shows, so how hard could it be to sell a TV show? But I think what happened really fast, certainly by the time House of Cards happened at Netflix, is it became so high concept and the Hollywood players so A-list - you have Martin Scorsese and David Fincher at Netflix, that's A-list. Gutierrez spoke with SYFY WIRE at length about what he learned about writing, selling, and making a TV show in the modern era - a feat still easier said than done.įirst, basic question: How do you successfully pitch a TV show? Gutierrez grew up reading pulp and potboiler crime novels, idolizing authors like Elmore Leonard, so while he's spent much of his career making horror flicks (including last year's Elizabeth Harvest) and sci-fi fare (he's the mind behind Snakes on a Plane), Jett was a natural transition.Ĭritics agree Jett premiered at the beginning of June and the two episodes that have aired thus far have both received very favorable reviews. ![]() The show stars Carla Gugino, Gutierrez's real-life wife and frequent collaborator, as the titular master thief and con-woman who finds herself right back on the job after being released from jail - her relationship with a crime boss, played by Giancarlo Esposito, guarantees it. Give me notes, but basically take it or leave it."Įventually, HBO took the show to air on Cinemax, with the network's "sophisticated pulp" aesthetic a perfect fit. ![]() And then I went to places with the whole thing. But I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. "I was like, I'm not sure that I can come up with a full story for a season, so I wrote it for three years in between real jobs, wrote the whole season without anybody paying for it, just to see if I could do it," Gutierrez told SYFY WIRE during a recent conversation in New York. The new Cinemax crime drama Jett takes that new age adage to a new level - the story not only unfolds like a movie, the project was also written, pitched, and shot in much the same manner.įor Jett creator (and writer/producer/director) Sebastian Gutierrez, after two decades in film, it was the only way he really knew how to do it. Now that television's storytelling standard has shifted from interchangeable episodic hours to cohesive arcs unfurled over shorter seasons, it has become commonplace, almost to the point of cliché, for showrunners to say the project is more like a 10-hour movie than anything else. ![]()
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