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WRITING for the Small Screen THE CONTEST ISSUE: Your guide to entering and winning! BIGfor the Small Screen WRITING MAY/JUNE 2010 Volume 17 Number 3 Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Lindelof & Cuse and Kitsis & Bruce C. McKenna and Graham Horowitz explain how they never Yost head back to war in Ironing out a sequel with $6.95 LOST control in the writers’ room. The Pacific. Iron Man’s Justin Theroux. 2010 SCREENWRITING Oct. 7-10, 2010 Hilton LAX E POLos Angeles CA SAVE THE DATE! October 7-10, 2010 Hilton Los Angeles Airport 5711 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045 The Expo room rate at this luxurious hotel is just $99/night Free Airport shuttle – Save $170 on 3 nights hotel and airport transportation Mark your calendar now – Early registrations will open by June 1 at the latest Featuring: GUESTS OF HONOR The Best Writers and Filmmakers Hollywood Has to Offer SEMINARS Over 100 classes on every aspect of writing and selling a screenplay PITCH To over 60 A-List companies at The Golden Pitch Festival NETWORK Meet thousands of fellow writers all in one location! For more information and constant updates, please visit: www.screenwritingexpo.com See you in October! ROBERT McKEE’S An ongoing, online community for writers. Author of... Featured in... content • Robert McKeeʼs Weekly Lessons • Robert McKeeʼs Weekly Interviews • Robert McKeeʼs Daily Q & A • Networking Rooms •AndMore Please visit www. .com about robert mckee Robert McKee is the author of STORY, and regularly teaches his Story Seminar to sold-out audiences around the world. From LA to NY to London, Sydney, Singa- pore, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Vancouver and 15 other film capitals around the world, more than 50,000 students have taken the course over the last 20 years. Attracting everyone from first-time writers to Hollywood’s biggest stars, the course is a source of knowledge and inspira- tion to screenwriters, TV writers, novelists, producers, directors, playwrights, journalists and fiction writers. Phone: 888.676.2533 E-mail: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/mckeestory 22Toy Story 3 28 LOST I Am Love Features Inside Pixar’s Toy Chest Michael Arndt tells of how he was brought to Pixar to help resurrect its beloved Toy Story franchise for the film’s third – and final – chapter. BY DANNY MUNSO 22 64 LOST: The Final Article After six years of fascinating characters and mysteries, the showrunners Iron Man 2 of LOST discuss how they arrived at those last days on the island. BY PETER CLINES Additional reporting by JEFF GOLDSMITH 28 Return to Battle Bruce C. McKenna, Graham Yost, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg talk about writing their $200 million HBO miniseries The Pacific. BY DANNY MUNSO 36 Niche Markets for Your Screenplay: The Low-Budget Horror/Horror-Comedy 66 We examine what the niche markets are and how to sell to them — market by market. This issue: low-budget (pulp), sci-fi and horror. Survival of the Dead BY JOHN FOLSOM 43 Please Don’t Do This Seven ways to get your screenplay on the reject pile. BY ROBERT ARJET 47 Screenplay Contest Listings A comprehensive list of the best contests to enter through the rest of the summer. 72 BY DAVID BARBA 49 Cover Photos Credit: Disney/Pixar 2 | creativescreenwriting May/June 2010 COLUMNS NOW PLAYING Agent’s Hot Sheet Iron Man 2 The Speck Market Proving that clothes make the man, the Nope, that’s not a typo. Writers everywhere screenwriter of Tropic Thunder casts off were hoping that 2010 would bring about his comedy threads to turn the Iron a resurgence in the spec screenplay Man franchise into an arms race of marketplace. So far, it’s not so good. armored battlesuits. BY JIM CIRILE 52 BY PETER CLINES 66 Our Craft Ondine Pixar’s Emotional Core: Writer-director Neil Jordan set out to tell a The Secret to Successful Storytelling postmodern fairy tale, armed only with a BY KARL IGLESIAS 54 drowning girl, a small town and a lot of questions. He learned that the key 36 The Pacific NOW PLAYING difference between fantasy and reality Twilight: Eclipse lies in one’s perception. In the midst of writing an epic battle between BY ADAM STOVALL 68 vampires and werewolves, Melissa Rosenberg Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time PEOPLE & NEWS fights her own battle against internal demons It took seven years and multiple writers to The Buzz and the overwhelming expectations of turn the popular “Prince of Persia” video The Script Contest Compendium 8 a global fan base. game series into a potential summer BY ADAM STOVALL 58 blockbuster. Will screenwriters Boaz Yakin, Breaking In: Mark Kratter Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard finally unleash Sex and the City 2 Mark Kratter kept placing in screenplay the first great video game movie with contests, with his success directly leading Writer-director Michael Patrick King ignores Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time? to his new job as an in-demand the naysayers and travels the globe to BY DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON 70 Hollywood screenwriter. 10 bring Sex and the City 2 to the screen. BY JENELLE RILEY 60 MacGruber Breaking In: Grant Boucher Three comic writers expand a recurring Grant Boucher makes the transition Mother and Child Saturday Night Live sketch into a feature from visual effects to romantic Nine years in the making, Rodrigo Garcia’s film and manage to do it without having comedy writer-director with his study of parent-child relationships reveals how the main character blow himself up first film, Journies. 12 he’s evolved as a writer during the long 90 times. creative time, incorporating lessons the BY PETER CLINES 71 People: David Guggenheim Nine Lives scribe learned along the way. An editor at Us Weekly hits the big time BY PETER DEBRUGE 61 Survival of the Dead with not one, but two six-figure deals Horror legend George Romero brings his in a two-month span. 14 I Am Love classic undead creations to the screen Italian director Luca Guadagnino is hardly the again. This time, however, the zombies People: Scott Caan first filmmaker to call Tilda Swinton his muse, take a backseat to a story that’s Writer-actor-director-producer Scott though chances are none of the subversive more about partisan arguments and Caan takes a moment on the eve of the British actress’ other collaborators have taken long-standing feuds. release of his third produced screenplay her words so seriously. BY PETER CLINES 72 to reflect on his process for the very BY PETER DEBRUGE 62 first time. 16 Micmacs Get Him to the Greek A bullet in the brain and countless other ideas Anatomy of a Spec Sale Nicholas Stoller has written on beloved collected over a decades-long collaboration TV vet Justin Adler (Futurama, Better Off TV series and big studio comedies, but between director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Ted) mines laughs out of a tough spec he faced his greatest challenge when his Amélie scribe Guillaume Laurant came market with The Escort. 18 harshest critic became his director. together to create the duo’s latest “live cartoon.” Why I Write BY ADAM STOVALL 64 BY PETER DEBRUGE 74 Writer-director team Brian Koppelman and Shrek Forever After David Levien (Knockaround Guys, Ocean’s Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke take the The A-Team Thirteen) admit that writing is never easy, reins of the beloved franchise for its If you’re in trouble, if you need help — and but it’s the key that opens the door to a fourth — and final — installment. if you can find them — maybe you can ask satisfying filmmaking career. 20 BY DANNY MUNSO 65 Brian Bloom and Joe Carnahan about writing... The A-Team. BY PETER CLINES 75 Podcast Alert! Creative Screenwriting now brings you The Good Heart podcasts of interviews with your favorite screenwriters! Writer-director Dagur Kári works the fringes Go to www.creativescreenwriting.com for more info. of society in The Good Heart. BY SEAN KENNELLY 76 creativescreenwriting | Table of Contents | May/June 2010 | Volume 17, Number 3 | www.creativescreenwriting.com May/June 2010 creativescreenwriting | 3 creativescreenwriting p VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3 Contributors PUBLISHER Bill Donovan Erik N. Bauer Dr. ROBERT ARJET reads scripts for the second SEAN KENNELLY ([email protected]), a Founder round of the Austin Film Festival screenplay com- Writers Boot Camp alumnus, won a regional Publisher 1993-2007 petition. He also writes coverage for the AFF, as Emmy his first year out of film school for his writ- EDITOR Bill Donovan well as for individuals through his own business, ing and producing efforts in the Utah media. Since SENIOR EDITOR ScriptTeacher.arjet.net. He has taught writing and then he has worked at several studios, including Jeff Goldsmith other courses at Syracuse University, Austin DreamWorks and Columbia Pictures, and is ASSOCIATE EDITOR Danny Munso Community College and Emory University. currently working on a novel and handful of ADVERTISING DIRECTOR screenplays. DAVID BARBA ([email protected]) is a Michelle Earnhart freelance writer who has experience in production DANNY MUNSO (danny@creativescreenwriting) ART DIRECTOR Derek Wood and post-production. He received his BA in is the associate editor and marketing manager for REGULAR COLUMNS Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount Univer- Creative Screenwriting. A graduate of Loyola Jim Cirile and Karl Iglesias sity's School of Film and Television. He enjoys Marymount University’s Film and Television pro- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Peter Clines, David Michael Wharton traveling and watching films. gram, he currently resides in San Francisco where COPY EDITOR you can regularly find him at Giants home games. Milla Goldenberg SHARI CARPTENER’s ([email protected]) EDITORIAL OFFICES debut feature film, Kali’s Vibe, won both the Jury JENELLE RILEY is a playwright and journalist 6404 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 415 and the Audience Award at the Denver Pan African based in L.A.
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