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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