Screenwriting From Iowa

No one would confuse me with a Trekkie. In fact, I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie. And chances are good that whenever the TV show was on when I was a kid that I was outside playing ball. But when a movie has an opening weekend of $75 million and has made over $200 [...]

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While Josh looks in this photo like an American Idol contestant I don’t even know if he can sing. He’s been helping me out at River Run Productions the last couple months doing freelance editing. He’s a student at UNI here in Cedar Falls but heads out to L.A. today to work as an intern [...]

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You may not know the name Michael Muller, but you probably know his work. It would be hard to miss the ubiquitous face and claw of Hugh Jackman on the movie poster for X-Men Origins; Wolverine. Muller is the photographer who took that photo.
Muller started out getting paid to shoot as a fifteen year old [...]

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“There’s a million different reasons to write. It took cancer to help me find the best reason in the world.”
                                               David Michael Wharton
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Last Friday my travels took me through Rochester, Minnesota which is located just a little bit above the Iowa-Minnesota border. Rochester is, of course, known for being home to the Mayo Clinic which is one of the most respected medical centers in the world.
It is also home to the coolest Barnes & Noble Booksellers building [...]

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“There are an awful lot of Scott Smiths running around the world.”
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Most screenwriters don’t jump onto the world stage like Diablo Cody who won an Oscar for the first screenplay she ever wrote. More often than not they follow a 20 year journey like screenwriter John Logan who was 40 years old when he received an Oscar nominated for his part in writing Gladiator. 
Logan was born [...]

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The 1985 film Witness is one of those movie that’s pops up again and again in screenwriting books as a fine example of writing. But like Rainman there are a lot of reasons why the film works and it is an example of a collaboration at it’s best. It was a perfect storm of talent and it resulted [...]

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The 1985 film Witness is one of those movie that’s pops up again and again in screenwriting books as a fine example of writing. But like Rainman there are a lot of reasons why the film works and it is an example of a collaboration at it’s best. It was a perfect storm of talent and it resulted [...]

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“Are you something else I’m going to have to live through?”
                                                                     Erin Brockovich 
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