True Detective (2014 - ????)

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[...] Though Fukunaga’s work at that point had been embraced mostly by an art house crowd, he crossed over to the mainstream with True Directive and experienced his first real taste of Hollywood drama, famously clashing with writer Nic Pizzolatto. Though Fukunaga directed all eight episodes of season one, he did not return for season two, which was slammed by critics.

“The show was presented to me in the way we pitched it around town — as an independent film made into television,” he says. “The writer and director are a team. Over the course of the project, Nic kept positioning himself as if he was my boss and I was like, ‘But you’re not my boss. We’re partners. We collaborate.’ By the time they got to postproduction, people like [former programming president] Michael Lombardo were giving Nic more power. It was disheartening because it didn’t feel like the partnership was fair.” As for their creative differences, Fukunaga says, “Nic is a really good writer, but I do think he needs to be edited down. It becomes too much about the writing and not enough about the momentum of the story. My struggle with him was to take some of these long dialogue scenes and put some air into them. We differed on tone and taste.” [...]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/bond-director-cary-fukunaga-no-time-to-die-1235017724/

Ich habe mir die Serie am 04. August 2020 angeschaut. (Zum Serientagebuch)

Season 3 - Sky