How That Movie Got Made
How movies get made, screenwriting / film / TV "how the sausage is made", how your movie could get made, and the occasional cinematic short story.
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Why No One Has Been Able To Recapture What GLADIATOR Did For 25 Years
I’m at my father’s house, and (as seemingly all fathers are required by law to do) he is randomly rewatching GLADIATOR for the 700th time. It says a lot about my grandmother’s worldview that GLADIATOR was her favorite film as well, she saw...
David Fincher Made A Movie You’ve Never Seen, That Was Not Directed By David Fincher
The movie THE EMPTY MAN alludes many times to the power of thoughts. And the journey the project took, from greenlight through production to being dumped with almost zero advertising, is a fitting example of exactly that.
It’s a movie that...
I’ve Worked On 17 Produced Films - Here Is The Single Decision That Got 3 Of Them Greenlit
There’s One Common Factor
I’ve been involved in one way or another in 17 produced feature films (in some cases I developed them as an executive, in some cases I wrote or produced or even directed). The single decision that greenlit 3 of th...
A Friday The 13th TV Series Premieres Today... Rewatching The First Four Movies Makes Me Wonder...“Why?”
[SPOILERS for these 40 year old movies below :) But honestly, is it even possible to spoil them? You already know their plots. Anyhow…]
I’ve been on a bizarre experimental kick, watching the first four FRIDAY THE 13TH movies, one each morn...
Steven Knight Has Written SICARIO 3 - But He’s Already Written One Of The Most Underrated Crime Movies Of All Time
If anyone has any concerns about Steven Knight being the screenwriter of the just-announced Emily Blunt-returning, Benicio Del Toro-returning, Josh Brolin-returning SICARIO 3 (seemingly solo, meaning without Taylor Sheridan, as far as the a...
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Former film exec. Produced writer of film, TV, & scripted podcasts. Set up numerous cinematic short stories for film/TV adaptation. I'll be posting generally about how movies get made (and the weirder short stories) + various film/TV musings.
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