William Macdonald is an American film and television producer and writer.
Eventually he rose to run Hollywood producer Robert Evans' production company at Paramount Pictures.
He was also a co-creator of the HBO original series Rome (in association of the BBC) along with John Milius and Bruno Heller.
Macdonald also wrote a drama series about the history of New Orleans called Storyville that had begun filming a pilot by January 2016.
[4] Macdonald wrote an unproduced screenplay based on Iris Chang's novel The Rape of Nanking.