Dearest Readers,
After my last post about leaving HEROES, my attention was drawn to the comments section of this blog. I want to thank everyone for their kind words and well wishes to me. I was truly touched. I also want to thank Otto Berkeley who writes reviews for herosite.net for his kind words. I’ve always found his reviews of the HEROES episodes to be very thoughtful and accurate. I’ve had a long relationship with Craig from kryptonsite.com and herosite.net and he’s been a great supporter as well.
Anyway – I would like to update everyone as to what I have been up to. I have, in fact, landed on my feet, as it were. Next year I will be producer-director on the new CW series MELROSE PLACE. Given the super-hero, stunts/fx background on my last two shows, this may not be the place people expected me to end up – but I will tell you it is a place I am very happy to have ended up.
The series has been created by Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer, who are my friends from SMALLVILLE. Because of their involvement, I knew the show was going to be well-written and unexpected. A few weeks ago, when the idea of moving onto this show came up, I went to their office and watched a rough cut of the pilot. After it was over I turned to them and said, “You guys nailed this thing.” The pilot, which was directed by Davis Guggenheim, is intense, sexy, dark, edgy and shimmering. The cast is all-around excellent. My full expectation is that this series is going to be a breakout hit next season. I’ve been right about this on two-for-two series and I’ll be happy to go three-for-three.
I am also excited for the chance to “change up” the kind of work I’ve been doing. For whatever reason I have been lucky to have had a lengthy career. It’s had many ups and downs and I’ve gotten to work on lots of different kinds of material. Slowly, over time, I’ve come to realize, from a personal career-management standpoint, that it’s important to shift what you’ve been up to every once in a while so as not to get pinned down as the guy who just does that one thing. I am very happy to get to shift onto this new series which is well written, well cast and has the full backing of a very excited CBS/Paramount studios and the CW network.
Anyway, I’ve jumped onto this new job, which has been like jumping onto a moving train. I’ve been at work on it for the last few weeks… Putting together a crew and a rotation of directors, getting to know the cast and getting ready to start producing and directing this exciting new series. It’s all been extremely fast-paced and intense, and I haven’t had time, up until now, to post about my whereabouts. As of today we hired the last two key positions (hairdresser and costume supervisor - whew!) and I finally was able to come up for air.
Truthfully, at this time, I’m not sure if I’ll be doing the same thing with this blog I did on HEROES (i.e. posting behind the scenes photos and information on an episode by episode basis.) I might be, but that’s all still in the works.
Nevertheless, I didn’t want my last-ever post to be the rather somber farewell I wrote for the end of my run on HEROES. Take it from me, I am happy and healthy and all is well. If any of you fans of HEROES and SMALLVILLE are willing to follow me to a different kind of show, I promise you will be well rewarded with a visually exciting and emotionally compelling series.
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