“Everything’s always about page-turning, right? What’s next? So, if you create questions for audiences, then they’ll want to know the answer. Or they begin to formulate possible outcomes. That’s the game we play when we’re hearing a story unfold. That’s part of what sucks us into a movie.” Producer/Director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Rush) Extended […]
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On this repost Saturday I’m going back to a post I wrote 2 1/2 years ago on Ron Howard. While his latest film Rush (centered around the effects of a race car accident) gets a wide release here in the States this weekend, many people may be unaware that his feature directorial debut released back in […]
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“A rivalry is an act of obsession and love, I wanted [Rush] to feel like a love story even though they were just bashing the living daylights out of each other.” Rush screenwriter Peter Morgan Reuter/Rush screenwriter inspired by rivalry, not Formula On racing “[Rush] was suggested to me by my friend George Lucas, and […]
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“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” Mario Andretti “The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.” From the Rush movie trailer The movie Rush hits the theaters tomorrow with great expectations. I’m looking forward to it. I’ve always had a fondness for the racing movie Heart Like a […]
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“I’ve done a lot of crazy things in my career. I’ve been invited to be with emperors, kings and prime ministers, but I can tell you right now from the bottom of my heart, being here in Iowa Falls is something I will never, ever forget.” Actor Hugh Jackman September 21, 2013 Would you pay […]
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“Just focus on the writing and everything else will fall into place.” Aaron Guzikowski While the name Aaron Guzikowski may not roll off the tongue as easy as saying Diablo Cody, there are similarities between the two screenwriters . Cody is a writer with Chicago/Iowa City/Minneapolis roots who worked a regular job at an advertising […]
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“Just focus on the writing and everything else will fall into place.” Aaron Guzikowski While the name Aaron Guzikowski may not roll off the tongue as easy as saying Diablo Cody, there are similarities between the two screenwriters . Cody is a writer with Chicago/Iowa City/Minneapolis roots who worked a regular job at an advertising […]
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“Somewhere a screenwriter is preparing a query letter to send out. Will you read the letter? We will. Will you write the letter? You should. It has to start somewhere.” Producer Adam Kolbrenner (Prisoners) “#1 – IT ALL STARTS WITH AN ENVELOPE Let’s go back to 2006. It was a simpler time in America for […]
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On this repost Saturday, I thought I’d reach back to September 2009 when I wrote this post on Lawrence Kasden that was originally called From West Virginia to Hollywood: Since Diablo Cody is my poster child (female) for a screenwriter coming from outside L.A. (and the original inspiration for this blog) then I think I’ll name Lawrence […]
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“When I was traveling the Midwest by car, bus and train, I regularly visited small-town libraries and found that readers in Keokuk, Iowa, or Benton Harbor, Mich., were checking out Proust and Joyce and even Svevo and Andrei Biely. D. H. Lawrence was also a favorite. And sometimes I remember that God was willing to […]
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