{"id":9518,"date":"2011-04-14T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T23:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9518"},"modified":"2011-04-14T19:06:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T23:06:02","slug":"the-hollywood-reporter-reveals-the-writers-behind-summers-biggest-blockbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9518","title":{"rendered":"The Hollywood Reporter reveals The Writers Behind Summer&#039;s Biggest Blockbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6864\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"cpt_america_header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/cpt_america_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Tentpole scribes open up to the new issue of THR about dealing with difficult directors, competing against each other, \u201cinsane\u201d product placement and selling out.<\/p>\n<p>Writing a tentpole summer movie can mean huge rewards, but it\u2019s also rife with extra pressures. An exercise in politics as much as creativity, these colossal productions often require a screenwriter to collaborate not only with directors and producers, but also with the toy industry, comic-book companies, merchandising entities, rabid fans, marketing execs, storyboard artists, the laws of physics, previous movies and source material and, often, a host of other unseen writers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a roundtable discussion equal parts wry realism and clever insight, Jonathan Aibel (Kung Fu Panda 2, which opens May 26); Greg Berlanti (Green Lantern, June 17); Ehren Kruger (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, July 1); Christopher Markus (Captain America: The First Avenger, July 22); Ashley Edward Miller (Thor, May 6; X-Men: First Class, June 3) and Roberto Orci (Cowboys &amp; Aliens, July 29) lay bare just how the blockbuster sausage is made &#8212; and why it can be the coolest job imaginable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/risky-business\/roundtable-writers-summers-biggest-blockbusters-177491\">Exclusive video and the roundtable discussion can be found by Clicking Here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Pre-Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tentpole scribes open up to the new issue of THR about dealing with difficult directors, competing against each other, \u201cinsane\u201d product placement and selling out. Writing a tentpole summer movie can mean huge rewards, but it\u2019s also rife with extra pressures. An exercise in politics as much as creativity, these colossal productions often require a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3157,2894,3156],"class_list":["post-9518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-blockbusters","tag-captain-america","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}