Michael Boyle
Expertise
The Scream Franchise, HBO Dramas, Saturday Night Live
- Michael spent a few years working as an editor specializing in Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels, work that translates surprisingly well to writing about TV and film.
- Michael has interviewed screenwriters and actors such as Elegance Bratton, Sarah Chalke, and Gabrielle Union.
- If a movie or show is based off a book, Michael's read the book already.
Experience
Michael has always loved to read critical pieces about TV and film, and then one day he realized he could write them as well. He started off writing for various entertainment outlets about shows like "Saturday Night Live," "Euphoria" and "Rick and Morty," before finally getting a writing position at /Film. Now you can regularly find him here, passionately defending controversial TV finales and providing in-depth explanations for why certain sequel films are unfairly maligned.
Education
Michael has bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Binghamton.
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Stories By Michael Boyle
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The Blade Runner deleted opening scene could have changed the entire course of the franchise.
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A young Arnold Schwarzenegger was wary of being photographed with the bigger and taller Kerry Von Erich, who's portrayed by Jeremy Allen White in The Iron Claw.
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The Simpsons is known to parody many musicals, and this parody of The Music Man almost got Conan O'Brien a starring role on Broadway.
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Sigourney Weaver had a perfectly clear view of how Alien should play, clearer even than Ridley Scott, who she had to advise to remove a certain scene.
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The Twilight Zone has inspired countless TV series and movies over the years, including the pinnacle of prestige TV, The Sopranos.
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Alan Ritchson has a lot of insight into Lee Child's Jack Reacher character after playing him for a whole season, and he knows what makes a good Reacher story.
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Rick and Morty fall into a fear hole, where they must confront their deepest fears, in the Rick and Morty season 7 finale.
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Just how realistic would Jack Reacher and his Special Investigations Unit in Reacher season 2 look to someone in the military? Here's what we learned.
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Rick and Morty season 7 has confirmed that heaven exists, which somehow makes the risk of Rick dying feel even more inconsequential, and that's a problem.
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Russell T. Davies is back, baby! The returning showrunner delivered some ridiculous regeneration shenanigans in the final Doctor Who 60th anniversary special.
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The Hays Code nearly forced Alfred Hitchcock to include an additional scene that would've undermined Vertigo's incredibly evocative, tragic ending.
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Christopher Nolan doesn't hate intermissions, but he thinks that splitting Oppenheimer up would have made it more challenging to watch.
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How were the creators of Avengers: Endgame supposed to follow up Infinity War's snap? With a total change of tone and a renewed focus on character growth.
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The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important conflicts in history, but the movie Napoleon barely explains what the heck is going on.
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Rick and Morty's latest episode gives Summer a lot to do by throwing her into yet another homage to a movie, but it's not the one you'd expect by the premise.
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Donna Noble can't be allowed to remember the Doctor or she'll die. Fortunately, the first Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special has a very silly loophole.
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Because most animation takes a while to complete, Futurama ended up with a joke that didn't work thanks to the 2008 financial crisis.
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When it came time to create some time travel in the Marvel extravaganza Avengers: Endgame, the screenwriters had a Harry Potter influence for some stuff.
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Matthew Lillard has been working steadily since Scream and Scooby-Doo, but Five Nights at Freddy's brought him back to the big screen.
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Cillian Murphy's Oppenheimer and Gary Oldman's Harry Truman clash in a climactic way in Christopher Nolan's film, and Nolan has deep insight into the moment.
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There's a lot of debate over who said which iconic lines first in the Star Wars franchise. Samuel L. Jackson swear he should have been the first to say this.
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Rick and Morty cleverly remake the clip show episode format into something brilliant, fresh, and far more entertaining than can be expected.
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The Community movie has been a long time coming, but Dan Harmon says the writers strike delays saved it from shooting with a subpar script.
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Director Francis Lawrence is game to make another Hunger Games film after Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds, but only if Suzanne Collins writes a new novel first.
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Spider-Man's shooting wrapped up just before 9/11, and the impact of that event could be felt all over the subsequently edited film.
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Suzanne Collins' original Hunger Games prequel novel dives a little deeper into Panem's violent history than the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes film adaptation.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes promises to deepen the lore behind one fascinating character from the original films.