Starting out early

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way. On her way she met a copy.

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Big Stories on the Small Screen in association with Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute presents

Richard Brown: Making Screen Stories

in conversation with Hugh Linehan, Culture Editor, The Irish Times Saturday October 22nd 3pm - 5pm richard-brown

About Richard Brown Richard Brown is a Scottish born NYC-based film and TV producer with production and management company Anonymous Content. Most recently, Richard produced the multiple award winning HBO anthology series True Detective. Richard began his career at Island Records in London as an A&R executive, where he worked with artists including Massive Attack, The Cranberries, Nine Inch Nails, Julian Cope and U2. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1993 where he began the transition to film while working for Nick Wechsler’s Industry Entertainment - initially creating a music department, then subsequently working as a development and production executive. During this time Richard worked on Industry Entertainment productions including Requiem for a Dream, Quills and The Yards. After moving to New York in 2001 Richard re-teamed with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell to head productions for Palm Pictures, where he created and produced The Directors’ Label DVD Series with filmmakers Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry. The series generated 7 editions, selling almost 2 million copies worldwide. At Palm, Richard also acquired numerous international films for US distribution. Richard joined Anonymous Content as a producer in 2006. He has worked on many films and TV series since then, beginning with 2008’s 44 Inch Chest, starring Ray Winstone, Iain McShane, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson, and culminating in developing and producing the multiple award winning ongoing HBO anthology series’ True Detective. Richard’s current projects include a limited serial adaptation of Catch-22, written and directed by David Michôd (Animal Kingdom, War Machine), a James Ellroy original series called Gemstone, which David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water, Starred Up) will direct, a new multi season series entitled The Target, written and to be directed by Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana, Gold), and a US adaptation of the Danish TV series Follow The Money, currently being written by Oren Moverman (Love and Mercy, The Messenger, Rampart). About Anonymous Content Founded in 2000 by CEO Steve Golin, Anonymous Content is a film and television production and management company, representing directors, writers, actors and comedians. Anonymous Content has produced numerous award-winning and commercially successful films including the Academy Award®-nominated Babel, which also won a Golden Globe® Award; Winter’s Bone, which was nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards®, including Best Picture; The Fifth Estate, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which won an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay; as well as the box-office smash 50 First Dates. The company’s recent films include Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant, starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Tom Hardy, which won 4 Academy Awards as well as the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Picture ; this year’s Academy Award Winning Best Picture Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy and starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams, which also won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Triple Nine, directed by John Hillcoat and starring Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Chiwitel Ejiofor and Kate Winslet; Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba; The Meddler, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring JK Simmons, Rose Byrne and Susan Sarandon ; and the Sundance winner and independent hit The End of the Tour, written by Pulitzer Prize winning author Donald Margulies, directed by James Ponsoldt and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Currently in production is Collatoral Beauty, directed by David Frankel and starring Will Smith, Edward Norton and Keira Knightly and Helen Mirren.The company’s television productions include the Emmy award winning HBO anthology series True Detective; the HBO / Cinemax series The Knick directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen and the Golden Globe winning hit hacker drama Mr Robot, which is currently in production on its second season, starring Rami Malek and Christian Slater. The current TV slate includes a limited series of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist, to be directed by Cary Fukunaga with Eric Roth and Hossein Amini on board as executive producers, Berlin Station, a drama set inside the US embassy in Berlin, directed by Michael Roskam (Bullhead), and Maniac, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill which recently sold to Netflix in a straight to series order. Scheduled to go into production later this year are James Ellroy’s Gemstone, a 5 part limited serial to be directed by David Mackenzie (Starred Up) and Netflix’s The OA, created by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, in which Brit will also star. lrh

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The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word “and” and the Little Blind Text should turn around and return to its own, safe country. But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk with Longe and Parole and dragged her into their agency, where they abused her for their projects again and again. And if she hasn’t been rewritten, then they are still using her.Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.

The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way. On her way she met a copy. The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word “and” and the Little Blind Text should turn around and return to its own, safe country. But nothing the copy said could convince her and so it didn’t take long until a few insidious Copy Writers ambushed her, made her drunk

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