Love film has a published an interview with the Wire author Ed Burns.
LF: How far were any of the characters or cases in The Wire based on real people and situations?
EB: None of them were based on real people and real situations. I knew that world intimately and I did a lot of wire tap cases – with warrants too, I mean legally! – and I know the moves. I spent thousands of hours with all sorts of gunmen and drug dealers. So creating stories is easy because you’re drawing on all that wealth and then layering the details, again, because you’ve seen it.
Check out the full interview at Lovefilm
2 Comments
March 17, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I’m a recent fan to “The Wire” (I’m still working through Season 1), and I find it amazing and instructive. Thanks for linking to this interview to Ed Burns. I’ve always wondered about this person in the credits next to David Simon.
March 19, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Yeah, Ed burns is a pretty cool dude too