I wrote it in longhand, and my older sister typed it for me – typed it on lined notebook paper, as I recall! I believe I still have it tucked in some file somewhere. Write what you know, right (not the “spy” stuff, but the “boy” stuff). So my first screenplay was the pilot for yet another spin-off titled The Boy from U.N.C.L.E. I was a huge fan of the spy series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which had spawned a spin-off that year titled The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. My very first screenplay was a television pilot – how prophetic. I’d been writing passionately since I was ten years old. It was one of those instances of overnight success that’d taken twenty years to occur. O'BANNON: My first professional writing sale was the mid-1980s revival of The Twilight Zone. MARV WOLFMAN: HOW DID YOU BREAK INTO THE BUSINESS? I’m hoping that Farscape will find another home somewhere (you reading this Showtime? UPN? TNT?) and that Rockne will return to the series he created and nurtured for its first three seasons and guide it into a half dozen more. I only wish we’d done more than two issues.Īs of this writing, word has come that the Sci Fi Channel has cancelled Farscape at the end of its fourth and current season. When I heard Wildstorm was doing a Farscape comic, I pitched for it as I’d never pitched for a comic assignment before. And the people who were doing it actually seemed to like doing it. You could never predict what was going to happen next. I like Star Trek (geek confession: yes, I’ve seen every episode of every series, even Voyager) but Farscape was…different. I quickly borrowed tapes from a few friends and caught up with everything I’d missed.įarscape was incredible. But, thought I, as much as I love the Muppets, and I really do – there’s a damn puppet in it! Anyway, I went to a science fiction convention where the Sci-Fi Channel had a booth that constantly played Farscape, and, standing there, I realized that my irrational prejudice against felt was keeping me from something special. I didn’t watch it at first, but friends said it was really good.
Unfortunately, my first reaction, even before I saw the actual show, was – there’s a puppet in it. Although I wasn’t a huge fan of seaQuest (see his comments below) when I heard Rockne was doing a new science fiction show called Farscape, I was incredibly anxious to see it. Rockne says below that he has some reservations about his film, Alien Nation, but I really thought it was, right down to its core, a wonderful story. But I have been an admirer of his writing. Although I’ve met Rockne, I actually don’t know him well.
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