Billions
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Miller: SEC used extreme, unethical enforcement tactics mirroring the show 'Billions'
“If you've seen that show billions, that, that New York AG in there, like they, there were some points of really extreme things that the SEC did that I'm not going to disclose. That is very similar to how they operate in billions. And it's quite unethical, but …”
Koppelman: A 60-page Billions teleplay relies on a 20-page scene outline
“For every episode of Billions, let's say an episode of Billions, the teleplay is 60 pages. The outline from which we worked is usually 20 pages.”
Koppelman: HBO hedge fund project died during the 2008 financial crash
“David and I started trying to write about them eight years before billions ever happened, and almost did a project about them at HBO, and the last minute didn't happen because of the financial crash of”
Koppelman co-created Billions after a box-office flop and HBO firing
“David and I wrote a movie that completely bombed at the box office. It was a disaster on Rotten Tomatoes. We were involved in a high profile project that was going to be on HBO and it never happened. We got fired from it before it even begun. And we had a movi…”
Koppelman: Every character in 'Billions' is written to be smarter than the writers
“You have to make these fictional characters feel incredibly real to you, and you want to write them smarter than you are, and that's the only thing I can say is we want every character in Billions to be smarter than we are.”