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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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- Scott Myers
- I've been a screenwriter since 1987 when Universal Studios bought and produced K-9, a spec script I co-wrote. Other movie credits: Alaska (1996), starring Thora Birch, and Trojan War (1997), starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. Currently, I'm an Executive Producer with Distillery Pictures. In my spare time, I teach screenwriting at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and online through UCLA Extension, receiving the Writer's Program's Outstanding Instructor of the Year award in 2005.
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A hybrid genre: Action/drama/thriller
Movies like: Collateral, The Mist, Moon.
Stories were the protagonist is trapped or hindered to move about and must solve some form of test before they can "return home"
Thriller, definitely. My current book has a high romance content, so I describe it as a romantic thriller.
Romantic Comedy
Because: 1) You get to exerience what it's like to be in love through your characters. 2) Outlet to explore being romantic, without having to suffer negative repercussions. 3) Outlet to be funny; which is kind of on the dark side of the moon as far as on-the-surface personallity goes. 4) Way of exploring one's curriosity of the opposite sex, as I don't much personal contact with women in "real" life.
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
sci fi ish
The first half of my life... dark comedy and satire.
The second half of my life (currently underway)... big sci-fi action that has strong opening weekends.
character-driven drama, definitely. the problem is i fall in love with my characters and have a hard time throwing awful things at them. but i'm getting better at it.
though i wish i could write mystery/action/superhero movies. i have so much fun watching those.
I like to punch people in real life but I don't want to get sued for assault, so I write action movies instead.
I love to write in drama and crime genre. They're the deepest ones, yet are the hardest
So far, I seem to be having the best results with thrillers, particularly those with a criminal or espionage component. But when I add either satire or comedy, I seem to do even better!
Past performance based on recent screenwriting competition feedback and may not be indicative of future results.
Ahh, that's awkward, that "post removed by the author" hanging in the comments from me, at least for now. I just wanted to edit what I said as I didn't answer a "why."
Anyway, What I tend to write is drama, however recently I've been having a fun time with fantasy/thriller and really should spend more time with it. I suppose a why for the drama is that it comes easiest - it's what is usually spinning around in my head; often I take a moment that happened to me (which is unrelated to the plot, but rather just a small moment) and stuff different characters in it. From there, a story develops as I watch and get to know the characters. For fantasy/thriller, well, it's fun and funny and kind of exciting to create within the genre. I'm giddy when writing within fantasy/thriller, whereas in drama I tend to feel more serious and somber.
SF/action/thriller mix.
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