Nov 21, 2021
A team of wildly talented high school girl soccer players
becomes the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the
Ontario wilderness in the Showtime series. Showrunners Ashley Lyle
and Bart Nickerson talk to Write On about the journey it took to
get the series to screen. "We took [Yellowjackets] out to
fifteen networks; we pitched so many times,” Ashley said. “It was
all fully scripted and memorized because that's how we have to
pitch - especially when there are two of us. If we don't have it
scripted, it's just too easy to step on each other or have a weird
gap, so we just memorized 35 minutes word for word and then
pretended it was all off the cuff."
Ashley and Bart go on to talk about their collaborative
process. According to Bart, "Learning how to write or be a writer
is something that you will always feel like you are so far behind
on, and you are so incomplete, and the way that you do this is
insane and weird, and not only is it okay, but you can continue to
be adjusting that approach. Be okay with it feeling weird and
hard."
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