This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Derek Haas, the co-creator of Chicago Fire, executive producer of Chicago PD & 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 Haas 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 PD
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
The 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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