From I Love Lucy to The Sopranos
Terence Winter's journey to become showrunner for Boardwalk Empire.
By Paul Parcellin. The paths writers take toward achieving their career goals are varied, and Terence Winter’s passageway toward television writing included detours into medieval history studies and becoming an attorney—the latter he decided he could do without. His passion for history stuck with him, and no doubt helps fire the creative flames in producing […]
The Wolf of Wall Street
Adapting Jordan Belfort’s tell-all bio, “The Wolf of Wall Street,” to the screen was an assignment that Terence Winter could sink his teeth into. Filled with sex, drugs and filthy lucre, the story is many a screenwriter’s dream project. But, how do you make a character who has crushed the dreams, and bank accounts, of so many palatable to movie audiences?
by Paul Parcellin Writing about people who live on the wrong side of the law is nothing new to Terence Winter. After all, he was a writer and producer of the HBO gangster opus, The Sopranos. He’s also the creator and showrunner of the current HBO crime drama, Boardwalk Empire. With The Wolf of Wall […]
Bloodshed and Booze: The Tao of Terence Winter
When gangster bullets start flying, a show’s cast can take a sudden, savage hit. What’s the showrunner of Boardwalk Empire to do when the best and brightest join the body count?
by Paul Parcellin Terence Winter does not relish spilling blood, but he’s not afraid to kill, either. As a writer for The Sopranos, and now executive producer and showrunner of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, he has sent many to an untimely grave. The latter show, a sprawling drama starring Steve Buscemi, whose backdrop is the violence […]
