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Mark Duplass Has a Plan to Save Television
The indie film market collapsed. Then the TV business. His model fuses both at a fraction of the cost.
Chances are Mark Duplass is most recognizable to the general public from his role on The Morning Show as Reese Witherspoon’s frumpy producer, but real Letterboxd heads know him as a longtime indie-film stalwart. Duplass teamed up with Eslyn and used a portion of his Morning Show salary to write, direct, and produce Penelope, a meditative and largely silent YA series starring Megan Stott about a young girl who decides to break away from society and wander the woods. I don’t feel comfortable advocating for a lot in the independent creative community right now — it’s really tough out there — but I do believe that, in the long run, if you can find ways to not lose too much money and keep cranking out a bank of titles, you’ll probably make a few things that you can license out in retirement through the years.
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