The veteran producer talks with The Hollywood Reporter about growing from a "boutique" production company into a mini-studio looking to foster other writers.The veteran producer behindhas inked a massive new five-year, nine-figure overall deal with Warner Bros. TV Group, the studio he has called home since starting his career as a story editor in 1986.
Wells' slate includes projects near deals with two streamers and Showtime. For the latter, Wells — as he did withwhich revolves around a white nationalist who falls in love with a woman who has a black son and must confront his beliefs in a changing America in the age of Trump.
The new pact arrives as Warners has continued to make impressively large deals to re-sign its most important producers. Aswith J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot that would keep the mega-producer at his longtime home in a pact estimated to be worth in the $500 million range. Wells, a former president of the Writers Guild of America West, noted these increasingly frequent nine-figure pacts represent more than a lump sum being deposited directly into a producer's bank account.
Wells' shift from a smaller production company to a mini-studio working to develop and sell multiple projects to outlets both internally — like WarnerMedia's forthcoming streaming service — and externally — Showtime, etc. — also helps to justify Warners' massive commitment to the producer.
Will it be a feel-good comedy?
Please Just stop 🤦🏾♀️ Like no, for god sake.🤦🏾♀️ Black women love BLACK MEN & black men love BLACK WOMEN End of , Please stop this mess 🙄👋🏾 This is just propaganda no one is falling for it. Story telling to twist the public’s perception of racist disgusting humans 👋🏾
No thanks. I already quit watching Shameless over the weekly lessons. Entertain me, fool.
Does anyone care?
🤔Hmm, how about he concentrate on the other 12. Not interested in 'not all racists are bad' TV.
because we need a white nationalist lead using black children to better themselves. No thanks. bebetter
Shameless isn't very good, honestly, but it's a hard pass on this new one. Not going to watch even a moment of that crap.
voteforbernie
Zzt'tz
Why?
🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏽♂️
White nationalist are not that bad? Hey Showtime what the fuck?
White people do not overcome racism because they wanna get laid or because they 'love' someone. All that happens is the person they're in dating/fucking becomes one of the good ones, an exception of their race. Tldr:
Showtime wtf is this nonsense?
The title “Heart of a Lion” really throws me out.
I Thank him for letting Me know what's on his Mind & how it Works..
Please god no
And then the mother gets charged with child endangerment? Or nah?
Why couldn't it be about the woman or black son? Oh right... because that would be the lead role...
This dude is literally making 'my wife's son' the movie lmao
Nope.
Why does anyone think we want or need this kind of show?
Why?
In my Bernie Mac voice... “What type of shit is this?”
Who asked for this? Who?
Not...an original Showtime production.
Fuuuuuuuuck this noise
Nobody asked for this. Put it back in the garbage.
Bad. Idea. Really bad.
Why can't y'all stop doing this?
Nope.
Ew.
This sounds awful.
Keep it.
So tired
I say this quite literally: no one needs or is asking for this.
I can’t ... just don’t
Why in the hell would a woman with a black child let the jerk anywhere near her person? Does it even matter if he falls in love with her?
Hi! Your idea is boring, and it also sucks. But I really want to emphasize that it sucks in the most banal, fatiguing way. Your idea is barely an idea and the parts of it that *are* an idea are hell garbage.
It's been said so many times but apparently it needs to be said some more. People of color do not exist in order to provide healing and growth opportunities for white supremacists. I have no words for how utterly tone-deaf this is.
I saw that on SVU. White racist couple adopt black child, then kill him for insurance money. Because lusting after someone has always fixed racism.
There's nothing in the world stronger than the love a man has for his wifes black son :)
Pls. No. Don't do this.
Bruh literally nobody wants this Black people don't want it, white people don't want it, I don't want it so cancel it immediately thank u
White people keep making these movies because White people love this shit. No accountability, feel good movie, Black forgiveness, etc. They are obsessed with creating fictional acts of racial unification instead of working towards it in real life.
Excellent reminder that I need to cancel Showtime.
Come on, man.
Do one on a black Hebrew Israelite who falls in love with a white woman it could be a comedy too
Fiction.
No
Another movie about how racist white people are until they find the one black exception and we should all forgive them without them doing shit?
Just... no.
They actually think this stupid and hamfisted anti-White propaganda is going to work on anyone.
Nobody wants this.
Who asked for this?
Im guessing he has no blk friends that would have told him this is a bad idea...
That sounds awful
'This sounds good! I'm excited for this!' - nobody ever
so, uh, about this... Dowdest
'my girlfriend's black son cured my racism' is some breathtakingly dumb shit
This liberal fantasy bullshit does no good.
No thank you.
White people, please, for the love of god, stop.
Nationalists don't need to and shouldn't be sympathized. This sucks.
🤮
Another white savior project? JfC
The West Wing strikes again
*neverending fart*
This is bullshit
so she murders him in his sleep, right?
Nope
Oh my GOD WHY DON’T YOU EVER LISTEN TO PEOPLE, WHITE MEN
keepit
He literally just ripped off Monster Ball.....also why?
This a joke right
STOP
Hi, Showtime? Fuckin nah.
BOY IF YOU DONT GET
2916jade is this man on crack or what?
stop with the race mixing cuck propaganda
Hell no
No.
Who asked for this? 🤷🏾♂️
Please burn the script
He’d already used Shameless as a title...
The answer to this riddle is NO
didn’t halle berry already win an oscar for this movie? 🤔
C U C K
Yes because I trust the man who worked on a show set in Chicago and only has two black characters on it.
Cheaper to just beat me to death with a hammer.
Nope
Can we make one about a white banker who won't give a black family a loan because of redlining then his own house is blown away in a tornado and he is forced to move to an apartment with a slumlord after investing all his money in corn futures before floods wipe out all crops.
Hollywood keeps lavishing awards on this shit so they’ll just keep churning it out.
Sounds like a solid oscar winner.
ew
Hasn't that been done to death? Bill Burr has a great routine on this type of thing.
Keep it. CC: ira
Hey Showtime, I have an idea called Dinner Of A Lion and it revolves around me kicking a white nationalist into a lion pit. I need one camera, a few lions, a pit, and a nightly spot in your network.
I really wish you wouldn't
Oh good everyone hates this racemix garbage. Though i see some are still a little dishonest about it.
This is not needed.
So the white nationalist is gonna be the good guy? Like, the person we’re supposed to root for? Yikes.
can we stop with all the shows to make racists seem lovable when we haven't even settled the humanization of everyone who isn't a straight white dude on screen
Ask Google what is a white and it'll tell you. Ask Google what is a nationalist and it'll tell you. Ask Google what is a White Nationalist and it will link you to anti white propaganda. lol
I predict it won’t be as good as American History X.
'...in a changing America in the age of Trump.'
I think if it helps destroy racism in our world by making people examine themselves and seek to change its a good idea. But like most lefty ideas it usually just causes more division.
hilarious reading these replies. such low iq, 0 critical thinking people. this isn't for you, this is to further condition evil whitey to accept his role as a second class citizen in the coming demographic change. please boycott it, i'm tired of this garbage on the stupid box
No, thank you.
How about a show about an Imam who has a transgender son?
Hard pass
Showtime
Why THE FUCK would this woman want anything to do with him?
Hard pass
Keep it.
The racist with a heart of gold. Sounds like a winner. 🙄
Why isn’t this titled “My wife’s son and her black boyfriend”?
Please, make it stop.
No thank you.
They are TRIPPIN!!!!!! FilmFatale_NYC
Stop trying to romanticize white supremacy, racism, white terrorism, etc.! Also, stop trying to push the narrative that people who fall into these categories should be humanized- hard pass! These folks are trash
Launch this idea into the middle of the sun please.
that sounds so very boring
Lol fuck that.
brave
Now what does he have against lions?
Thank u, next.
Oh good, a black kid used as a prop for the character arc of a white nationalist, just what audiences have been craving
People keep making these type of projects because they believe it will heal and connect the country but in reality nobody (and I mean nobody) wants this stuff.
Bitch, no.
I love John Wells and he's done a lot of exceptional shows, but this is a huge NO from me. For all the redemptive narratives popular culture wants to give white supremacists and saviors, we could be letting a lot of other not white people a chance to tell their stories too.
Nerp.
Love too normalize Nazis.
barf
nope.
Dear god stop doing these
Showtime, let's just call this stupid niche idea what it is: White Trash BoycottShowtime
what is wrong with people?
This is a bad idea.
Why?
wtf
No.
🖕🏾you do better....🇺🇸
I want to mute the terms nationalist or white nationalist from my timeline but haven't yet because of the off chance of there being some real news instead of the normal propaganda 🐂💩 most call news
How about a movie about a big ship that sinks on its maiden voyage?
Aka 'Monsters Ball' the TV adaptation
Who the fu$k wants to see that?! Privilege
How on point.
I adore him. 🥰 SouthLAndForever
Lmaoooooo
More racial division... Stop it.
Oh good.
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