With production grinding to a halt in the face of the novel coronavirus crisis, the entertainment industry has found itself navigating uncharted territory.
To offer a better sense of how, The Hollywood Reporter is running a regular series that focuses on how Hollywood's top writers, actors, directors, executives and others are living and working in these challenging times.
The fact that Franklin Leonard is so busy during the nationwide lockdown would seem to be a leading indicator that at least a few sectors of Hollywood are staying busy, too — namely those whose jobs involves mainly writing, or reading. "The one thing people can — and seem to want to — do right now is read great scripts and develop material," says the Black List founder,.