10 TV SCRIBES TO WATCH JOHN CHERNIN & DAVE CHERNIN “The Mick” (Fox), 2017; ages 33 (John); 31 (Dave) JUNE 14, 2016 VARIETY.COM 82 Writing partnerships face the challenge of needing to feel like a kinship while maintaining some form of professional decorum. Unless that partnership is made up of two siblings. “Generally, we’re pretty much in lockstep, but we have issues like anyone else. The fact that we’re brothers makes it easier to just be straightforward and forgive one another when something horrible is said,” says Dave Chernin, who created Fox’s midseason series “The Mick” with brother John. “If all else fails, we grease up and wrestle it out.” Both Chernins have tried writing with other partners, but, as John explains, “It’s pretty advantageous to be writing with someone with whom you have this shorthand going back 30 years. There’s a lot of inside jokes that we’re familiar with and I don’t think either of us will ever get over the fact that people pay us money The fact that we’re brothers makes it easier to just be straightforward when something horrible is said.” Dave Chernin to crack each other up.” The brothers, whose father is the Chernin Group’s Peter Chernin, got their big breaks writing on the FXX comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and say they learned everything from that series’ stars and exec producers Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day — be it putting character first and figuring out story second, or the importance of good casting. Kaitlin Olson, who plays Sweet Dee on “Sunny,” toplines “The Mick,” a comedy about a deadbeat who ends up as the parental guardian to three kids. “We wrote the character for Kaitlin’s voice to get on the same page during the writing process,” John says. “In the back of our minds, we were holding out hope that she would be available. And then, we heard there was a possibility, [and] it was full speed ahead, and she was the only one we were interested in working with. To us, she is the funniest woman on the planet and has been for well over a decade.” — Whitney Friedlander Representation WME, 3 Arts MATT & ROSS DUFFER “Stranger Things” (Netflix), July 15; ages 32 Netflix’s upcoming series “Stranger Things” started with a simple idea. “We wanted to see something on TV that was in the vein of the films we loved growing up,” Matt Duffer says. North Carolina natives Matt and twin brother, Ross, came of age in the ’80s, when genre films were in full bloom. “The Steven Spielberg films, John Carpenter films, Stephen King books,” Matt Duffer says. “when we were watching those films or reading those books, it was like we were on that adventure and encountering that supernatural being. We wanted to try to capture that experience on TV in a longform nature.” “Stranger Things” follows three boys, who, when searching for their missing friend, get wrapped up in a wild adventure with sci-fi and horror overtones. Think “Super 8” meets “Freaks and Geeks,” with the mother of the missing boy played by ’80s teen star Winona Ryder (her casting is no coincidence, as the brothers also cite frequent Ryder collaborator Tim Burton as a formative influence). “Stranger Things” was originally conceived as a feature film, the arena the Duffers always aspired to work in (their 2015 thriller “Hidden” was released straight to DVD and VOD by Warner Bros.), but they were encouraged by seeing idols like Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher and Cary Fukunaga move to TV. “When I saw the ‘True Detective’ trailer, I was more excited about that than I was about most upcoming movies,” Ross says. They first dabbled in TV on staff of the Fox series “Wayward Pines.” “What it taught is that we could, with a gun to our head, pound out scripts very quickly, which is something we had never done before,” Ross says. Now, having completed an eight-episode first season for Netflix, they’ve fully embraced the upside of the small screen. “It feels right now in film, everyone is doing something branded or with some sort of IP, [and] if you’re not playing in a designated sandbox you can’t really get to play,” Matt says. “For people our age, a lot of Brothers In Arms Writer-directors Matt, right, and Ross Duffer on location for Netflix’s ’80s-set thriller “Stranger Things.” us all want to tell original stories — inspired by these films but aren’t remakes of them, and have our own DNA in them. I think that’s why people are moving into television, because it’s a little freer and a place like Netflix will allow us to tell our own story.” They focused on making “Stranger Things” feel as much like a complete feature film as possible, helming six episodes themselves (exec producer Shawn Levy directed the other two). They prefer to think of possible future seasons as “sequels” instead of a single ongoing story. To that end, they feel Netflix’s binge model is a perfect fit. “You want the family to sit down with the popcorn and watch one episode and then want to watch another and another,” Matt says. “That’s the goal.” — Geoff Berkshire Representation Paradigm DUFFER: CURTIS BAKER/ NETFLIX
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