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This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Derek Haas, the co-creator of Chicago Fire, executive producer of Chicago PD and Chicago Med, and the author of A Different Lie—the fourth book in a series featuring the contract killer Columbus. The two talk about their respective creative failures, how Derek manages his time as a showrunner and novelist, and why he feels compelled to keep writing books. Plus, Derek reflects on his time learning the ropes in Hollywood and why he and his creative partner, Michael Brandt, decided early on to see every project through to the end.
Topics mentioned on today’s show include:
- Chicago Fire
- Chicago P.D.
- Chicago Med
- A Different Lie by Derek Haas
- The Silver Bear by Derek Haas
- Columbus by Derek Haas
- Dark Men by Derek Haas
- 3:10 to Yuma
- Wanted
- The Double
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- Baylor University
- Writer’s Market 2016
- The Courier
- Runner Runner
- Rounders
- Our Man Flint
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Body by Stephen King
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
People mentioned on today’s show:
- Derek Haas
- Michael Brandt
- John Singleton
- Dick Wolf
- Eamonn Walker
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Edmund Spenser
- William Faulkner
- Donald Westlake
- James Altucher
- James Coburn
- Scott Frank
- John Lee Hancock
- Craig Mazin
- Matt Olmstead
- Jeff Lowell
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