Happy to announce that my first TV pilot 'Beautiful Disaster' advanced as a 2nd Rounder of the Austin Film Festival in the Drama Pilot category! After being rejected for a weaker draft of this script last year it feels good to be heading in the right direction! #AFF
1. Lincoln
2. West Side Story
3. The Fabelmans
4. Bridge Of Spies
5. The Post
6. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
7. The Adventures Of Tintin
8. Ready Player One
9. War Horse
10. The BFG
Seeing Disclosure Day Saturday. Can't wait!
My ranking of Steven Spielberg's last ten films:
1. Lincoln
2. West Side Story
3. The Fabelmans
4. Bridge Of Spies
5. Disclosure Day
6. The Post
7. The Adventures Of Tintin
8. War Horse
9. Ready Player One
10. The BFG
Screenwriting is hard. REALLY FUCKING HARD. If everyone or anyone could do it and do it well, they would. Having learned it a little and learned from some of the best, I can tell you, it's not something these studios are going to casually replace. They'll find that out.
Do you guys have go to movies for certain situations?
For me, it's tough to beat throwing on "Jurassic Park" during a good thunderstorm or "Alien" when I'm sick... I like to remind myself that regardless of how crappy I feel at least I'm not aboard the Nostromo lol.
@alexconvery Saw the movie last night, can't stop thinking about it. Congrats on all of your well deserved success! I appreciate how humble and transparent you were in this interview. Truly inspiring. I'll look forward to seeing what's next and when you get your Oscar nom next January 😎
@theWellRedMage Lol. It's a shame film criticism has devolved into something so mindless and snarky for so many journalists. There's really only a few I can routinely read. @TheInSneider is prob my favorite.
I have been a consistently employed studio feature screenwriter for over a decade. Movies I've been fortunate to work on have grossed nearly a billion dollars worldwide. I have yet to write and sell a spec. #screenwritingtwitter 1/17
“I just started writing, and I wrote a bunch of scripts. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. And eventually, I got this. So it was a long process. It was like 10 years of me working back into this position.”
Keep hope alive, guys.
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