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Marc Guggenheim
American
Writer
Born:
Sep 24
,
1970
Always
Arrow
Book
Comic
Think
You
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As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.
Marc Guggenheim
Good
Timing
Think
Would
Would-Be
Logistics
About
Always
Off
Just
Asking
Episode
Start
I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Clever
Believe
Out
Prevent
Most
Around
Surprised
Person
Story
Figure
Even
Enjoying
There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.
Marc Guggenheim
Work
You
Car
Angeles
Stuck
Lifestyle
Driving
Los
Los Angeles
Traffic
Lot
Up
Where
Much
Your
Filling
Downtime
Gas
I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
Marc Guggenheim
Day
Thoughts
You
Writing
Lawyer
Down
One-Night
Make
Learn
Another
Another Day
How
Came
Up
Very
Quickly
Office
Get
Just
Really
Choices
Brief
Professionally
Night
The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
Marc Guggenheim
First
Half
TV
Genre
Any
Career
On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Money
Put
Ray
Call
Arrow
Jar
Palmer
Roy
We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
Marc Guggenheim
Pilot
Secret
Everything
Paper
Fine
Purposes
Absolutely
Perfectly
Red
Read
Printed
iPad
Script
Certain
Certain Things
Militant
Things
Desk
With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Pay
Budget
Terms
Comics
Artist
Want
Anything
All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Book
Imagination
TV
Only
Put
Stuff
Budget
Because
Limited
Comic
Comic Book
Afford
Artist
Just
Really
Your
Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.
Marc Guggenheim
Savage
Thinking
Characters
Introduced
Indiana
Indiana Jones
Kinds
About
Developing
New
Gordon
Because
Quantum
Were
Brand
Brand New
Flash
Being
Anymore
Many
Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim
World
Before
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Alive
Jobs
Would
Advanced
Sooner
Know
Steve
Steve Jobs
Edison
Were
Years
Einstein
Them
Much
Albert
Albert Einstein
Imagine
Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.
Marc Guggenheim
Love
Book
Affection
Medium
Guess
Characters
Superheroes
Lifelong
Had
Also
Obviously
Comic
Comic Book
Comics
While
Much
I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.'
Marc Guggenheim
Love
Man
Woman
Would
Cross
Over
Dollar
Huge
Huge Fan
Six
Where
Fan
Episodes
Million
We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.
Marc Guggenheim
Game
Fans
Black
Example
Big
Those
Though
Correlate
Directly
Inspirations
Writers
For Example
Big Believer
Arrow
Huge
Very
Product
Game Of Thrones
Even
Shows
Believer
Orphan
Necessarily
That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.
Marc Guggenheim
Internet
Job
See
Perks
Does
Getting
We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series.
Marc Guggenheim
Laying
Flash
Series
Foundation
Enjoyed
One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.'
Marc Guggenheim
Say
Evolution
Constant
Only
Arrow
Things
Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.
Marc Guggenheim
Me
Every
Our
Spend
Relaxing
Hiatus
Out
Beach
Really
Should
Planning
Whole
Season
Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.
Marc Guggenheim
Character
You
Sometimes
Drop
Nothing
Every
Universe
Enough
Kind
Easter
Find
Someone
More
Could
Part
Name
Like
Huge
Replete
Than
Huge Part
Egg
Want
Full
Fortunately
Hard
Who
Right
The nice thing about 'Arrow' is we never say never on the show. Hopefully the show will have a nice long life, and all manner of things can potentially happen.
Marc Guggenheim
Life
Will
Long
Never Say Never
Nice
Say
Hopefully
About
Potentially
Long Life
Never
Arrow
Happen
Manner
Show
Nice Thing
Thing
Things
What I took away from my 'Flashforward' experience is that when you're doing a serialized mythology show, you put your foot on the gas, and you do not take it off.
Marc Guggenheim
You
Experience
Took
Take
Foot
Mythology
Put
Doing
Off
Your
Show
Away
Gas
I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.
Marc Guggenheim
Long
Rich
Think
Way
Characters
About
Like
Talk
Sort
Histories
Very
Green
Flash
Which
Hard
Lantern
I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.
Marc Guggenheim
Respect
Care
Approaching
Think
Superhero
Potential
Highly
Very
Green
Movie
Regarded
Lantern
In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie.
Marc Guggenheim
Devil
Out
Superhero
Comics
Came
Blue
Movie
Who
Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.
Marc Guggenheim
Could
Writers
Develop
Come
Ideas
Without
Limitations
Just
Where
Movie
Wanted
Form
Regard
Place
Formed
Create
Producer
Company
We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.
Marc Guggenheim
Tired
Reading
Projects
Several
Rules
Ourselves
Out
About
Never
Announce
Come
Ready
Pipeline
Any
Want
Titles
Personally
Really
Publication
Set
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