People have been talking about Queen's Gambit a lot this past month, so I thought I'd share the story of the first time I got a call from Scott Frank. [1/7]
I had just delivered the draft of THE THING (2011) that got greenlit, and was thrilled to get into production rewriting with such a talented cast. I was then notified Universal was not keeping me on anymore.
Mar 17, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Oh man. What a lesson for me in first movies made. I get why this was used as the standout example in the GIF, but oof. I wish the script I'd written, with the two NL execs as shepherds, would have been the movie.
As @bradmiska might remember, the draft that we thought was going to be shot was different in many ways, some big and some subtle. This happens a lot, but I still have memories of arriving to set and recognizing nothing from the script on the shooting schedule.
Dec 29, 2018 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Okay you gorgeous monsters it's my birthday so as a gift of self-immolation I'm going to talk about the mountain we have to keep climbing in this business and that mountain is: Cultural bias. BUCKLE UP. (thread)
This problem is often quiet but ever-present, and you can bet that studios are learning lessons from BLACK PANTHER and CRAZY RICH ASIANS but likely they're the wrong lessons. You'll want to pull your hair out when talking to some of them about why those films are huge hits.
