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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Screenwriter Interview: David Webb Peoples Discusses Screenwriting Process
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Montreal-based writer/director, Lea Nakonechny (TWO MUSEUMS, EDGE OF THE DESERT), had the chance to chat with screenwriter David Webb Peoples (12 MONKEYS, UNFORGIVEN, BLADE RUNNER) in advance of the Toronto Screenwriting Conference (April 5 & 6). They talk process, anti-heroes and the Sisyphean task of writing.
Lea Nakanechny: Which do you begin with, character or story?
David Webb Peoples: Usually with a character scene. There’s an image of somebody doing something that defines them and makes you interested. Then you try to write a story around it and it doesn’t always work. I have many moments in my head I wish I could find the story for or build onto, and many instances of trying to build a story around a particular thing and not succeeding. These things linger over the years and sometimes, suddenly, you get it. But not always. MORE...
Montreal-based writer/director, Lea Nakonechny (TWO MUSEUMS, EDGE OF THE DESERT), had the chance to chat with screenwriter David Webb Peoples (12 MONKEYS, UNFORGIVEN, BLADE RUNNER) in advance of the Toronto Screenwriting Conference (April 5 & 6). They talk process, anti-heroes and the Sisyphean task of writing.
Lea Nakanechny: Which do you begin with, character or story?
David Webb Peoples: Usually with a character scene. There’s an image of somebody doing something that defines them and makes you interested. Then you try to write a story around it and it doesn’t always work. I have many moments in my head I wish I could find the story for or build onto, and many instances of trying to build a story around a particular thing and not succeeding. These things linger over the years and sometimes, suddenly, you get it. But not always. MORE...
Monday, February 17, 2014
Eight Agent Questions Every TV Writer Wants Answered… Right Now
Eight Agent Questions Every TV Writer Wants Answered… Right Now
by Filmmaker Staff in Filmmaking, Screenwriting on Nov 26, 2013
The following piece on TV writers’ interactions with their agents is excerpted from Chad Gervich’s just-released How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Representation. It can be purchased on Amazon at the link above.
How much should I talk to my agent during staffing season? I know they’re superbusy, and super-stressed, so I don’t want to bug them, but I also want to know what’s going on. Should I call once a day? Once an hour? Once a week? What?!
“It’s not about how frequently you call,” says Verve agent Amy Retzinger, “although please do not call every single day, and do not call once in the morning and then again in the afternoon . . . and don’t never call, because there are certainly clients you don’t hear from for weeks and that’s dangerous, too.MORE...
by Filmmaker Staff in Filmmaking, Screenwriting on Nov 26, 2013
The following piece on TV writers’ interactions with their agents is excerpted from Chad Gervich’s just-released How to Manage Your Agent: A Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Representation. It can be purchased on Amazon at the link above.
How much should I talk to my agent during staffing season? I know they’re superbusy, and super-stressed, so I don’t want to bug them, but I also want to know what’s going on. Should I call once a day? Once an hour? Once a week? What?!
“It’s not about how frequently you call,” says Verve agent Amy Retzinger, “although please do not call every single day, and do not call once in the morning and then again in the afternoon . . . and don’t never call, because there are certainly clients you don’t hear from for weeks and that’s dangerous, too.MORE...
McG’s Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Wisdom Wednesday: McG's Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Written by Alexandra Eide
He has directed music videos for Sugar Ray, Cypress Hill, Sublime
and Wyclef Jean… executive produced more than a dozen popular
television series, including Supernatural, The O.C., and Chuck… and is the driving force behind the Charlie’s Angels and Terminator reboots. Not sure who we’re talking about? Joseph McGinty Nichol, better known as McG, is the writer-director-producer behind some of this generation’s most popular franchises.
His latest feature 3 Days to Kill premieres next Friday, February 21. It stars Kevin Costner as a dying Secret Service Agent trying to reconnect with his daughter (Hailee Steinfeld). Love him or hate him, here are McG’s six golden rules of moviemaking. MORE...
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