Screenwriting From Iowa

This morning I saw on Facebook (where I stole the photo above) that Cydney Kelley won a Daytime Emmy last night as one of the writers on Days of Our Lives.  I met writer Cydney in either 2003 or 2004 in the first or second year of my decade living in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She lived […]

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“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” Artist Grant Wood Note: I don’t have the time to do this post justice, but I want to get in out there because it’s so timely to the success of A Quiet Place this month. I’ll try to update it when I have more time. You […]

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“Being in Iowa gives you a unique point of view inherently. Embrace that.” Bryan Woods Alumni filmmakers Scott Beck, Bryan Woods strike deal with Paramount Pictures Box Office Mojo had A Quiet Place stepping back into the top of the box office over the weekend and crossing the $200 million mark worldwide. Pretty amazing for […]

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“Being in Iowa gives you a unique point of view inherently. Embrace that.” Bryan Woods Alumni filmmakers Scott Beck, Bryan Woods strike deal with Paramount Pictures Box Office Mojo had A Quiet Place stepping back into the top of the box office over the weekend and crossing the $200 million mark worldwide. Pretty amazing for […]

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On Wednesday A Quiet Place was back at the number one position for the day. And Box Office Mojo expects A Quiet Place to finish this weekend in the number #1 slot. Pretty remarkable given its a non-franchise film going into its third week in theaters. How do you create something these days that rises above all […]

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Just as Sean Baker talked about the unusual influence of The Littel Rascals on his indie film The Florida Project, screenwriter Scott Beck talks about the unusual influence of the origins of the monster movie A Quiet Place.  It started with Charlie Chaplin—and I’m 100% serious. In college, we were watching a lot of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton […]

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A Quiet Place hit $150 million at the worldwide box office over the weekend. Not bad for a movie that only cost $17 million to produce and has only been in theaters 10 days. You may be surprised to learn that it started as an idea that could be made on a micro-budget. We started […]

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(A Quiet Place) was an idea that we came up with while we were students at Iowa. It was like 10 or 11 years ago that Bryan and I were sitting outside of our apartment on South Johnson Street talking about this idea. We kind of put it in a drawer and didn’t really crack […]

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“The key advice I’d give [any filmmaker] is when you’re starting out make things as cheaply as possible. There is a path for making things so cheaply that the minimal value that most independent films get can still help you to recoup your budget. And that’s a path that the Duplass brothers took really well, and […]

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“Growing up in Ohio was just planning to get out.” Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (who grew up in Akron) At the end of Ted Hope’s book Hope  for Film he has an appendix that lists 141 Problems and Opportunities for the Independent World. The list flowed from a blog post he wrote back in 2010.  You can find the […]

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