1.
Truthfully,
Suits
creator
Aaron
Korsh
didn’t
think
he
had
much
of
a
case
when
he
shopped
around
his
original
script.
As
the writer’s
strike
was
ending
in
2008,
Korsh’s
agent
suggested
he
turn
his stories
about
former finance
boss
Harvey
into
a
series.
And
as
an
aspiring
comedy
writer,
he
told
The
Hollywood
Reporter, “I
sat
down
to
write
something
in
the
tone
of Entourage
that
took
place
on
Wall
Street. What
emerged
when
I
was
finished
was
an
hourlong
show.
I
wouldn’t
say
it
was
a
thriller,
but
it
was
much
more
dramatic,
with
these
plot
twists
and
turns.”
Not
expecting
a
winning
verdict,
he
continued, “I
certainly
didn’t
think
in
a
million
years
that
anybody
would
buy
this
show.
I
was
just
trying
to
write
a
sample
that
someone
would
maybe
read
and
hire
me
off.”
Among
the
tweaks
that
were
made
when
it
was
transformed
into
a
pilot
for
USA:
Protagonist
Mike
Ross
(Patrick
J.
Adams)
and
co.
were switched
from
a
team
of
investment
bankers
to
a
group
of
high-powered
attorneys. “It
raised
the
stakes,”
Korsh
acknowledged.
Because
now
Mike,
who
hadn’t
graduated
college,
much
less
passed
the
bar,
wasn’t
just
lying
his
way
into
a
lucrative
gig, “he
was
committing
a
crime,”
said
Korsh, “and
the
law
also
gave
us
opportunities
for
all
kinds
of
ethical
dilemmas.”
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