- Candace Bushnell spoke about “Intercourse and the Metropolis” in an interview with The Instances of London.
- Netflix will stream all six seasons of “SATC” in April, however Bushnell stated she will not get royalties.
- She blamed male executives who do enterprise like a “Ponzi scheme.”
Netflix will stream all six seasons of “Intercourse and the Metropolis,” however its creator, Candace Bushnell, will not get a dime.
Bushnell shared her ideas in an interview with The Instances of London revealed Saturday. Her interview comes almost two weeks after Selection and different shops reported that “Intercourse and the Metropolis” can be out there on Netflix in america and components of Europe in April. Selection reported that Netflix signed the take care of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Bushnell instructed The Instances of London that Netflix’s deal — which may introduce the beloved characters to a brand new technology of viewers — will not “financially have an effect on” her.
“All of those males who’re accountable for issues, they simply maintain transferring these playing cards round to generate profits as a result of each time they transfer the playing cards round someone’s skimming,” Bushnell stated. “The best way males do enterprise is a Ponzi scheme.”
Bushnell’s unique “Intercourse and the Metropolis” novel was revealed in 1996 earlier than the sequence premiered on HBO in 1998. The franchise turned a popular culture phenomenon that spawned two motion pictures and two spin-off sequence. The Instances of London famous that Bushnell solely obtained $100,000 for the display screen rights to “Intercourse and the Metropolis.”
“The share of girls within the 1% who made their very own cash is about 3.5%, and that is surprising,” Bushnell instructed The Instances of London.
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Representatives for Netflix didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
This is not the primary time Bushnell has expressed discontent over selections surrounding “Intercourse and the Metropolis.” In February 2022, Bushnell stated she was startled by a few of the artistic choices made within the sequence sequel, “And Simply Like That.”
“You already know, it is a tv product, completed with Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker, who’ve each labored with HBO loads up to now,” Bushnell instructed The New Yorker. HBO determined to place this franchise again into their fingers for quite a lot of causes, and that is what they got here up with.”
Bushnell is now performing a one-woman present referred to as “True Tales of Intercourse, Success, and Intercourse and the Metropolis.” The onstage memoir explores Bushnell’s life and path to “Intercourse and the Metropolis.”
