Diablo Cody is taking the next step in her relationship with Warner Bros. Television. The Oscar-winning “Juno” screenwriter has signed a multi-year overall deal with the studio, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. She recently worked with them on an ABC comedy pilot, “Raised by Wolves.” Unfortunately, the U.S. adaptation of Caitlin Moran and Caroline Moran’s UK series of the same name didn’t get a series pickup. The new pact will see her creating and developing new projects for Warner Bros.
Cody created Showtime’s Toni Collette-starrer “United States of Tara” and co-created Tig Notaro’s semi-autobiographical Amazon series “One Mississippi.” The former aired from 2009–2011, and the sophomore season of the latter series dropped on September 8. Her feature writing credits include “Ricki and the Flash,” “Young Adult,” and “Jennifer’s Body.” She made her directorial debut with 2013’s “Paradise.”
“I’m perhaps alone amongst my colleagues because I like talking about women’s issues in film, and feminism,” Cody said back in 2013, before inequality on-screen and behind-the-scenes was being discussed as openly and frequently as it is today. “I think a lot of women don’t like to do that. It’s usually, ‘Can we please turn the conversation back to my work?’ For me, it’s an important part of who I am.” She explained, “I feel like so much of the reaction to my work and to me is connected to the fact that I’m a woman, so I can’t avoid that conversation. A part of my career is that I am a woman and I’ve committed myself to writing roles for women. I cannot separate myself from that and say, ‘Oh, can we please just talk about my work?’ That is my work.”