![]() ![]() That said, I may have ruffled a few feathers of actors and crew a couple of times by stepping in when I saw dialogue or action of the actors straying significantly from the storyline. And the fact that I was also executive producer didn’t hurt either. In my case, the relationship I had with the director was positive. Typically, directors are reluctant to have the writer on set for fear of having the writer interfere with the director’s vision. Seldom do screenwriters get to enjoy seeing first-hand the process of taking what they have written and making it come to life. The closest I’ve come to living the Hollywood life was watching Entourage on a regular basis.īreak the Stage is being shot entirely in and around Orlando, and I was on set for the first week of filming. What has it been like to live the Hollywood life? Have you been involved with the shooting? I am most comfortable with screenwriting, but willing to work on the skills of writing one finds in a traditional novel. Novelistic style in a screenplay is verboten, so lucky me. Although I always admired real novelists for their prose and poetic style, I was (still am) thoroughly intimidated. As a result, it reads more like a movie but with details, back story, and personal reflection of the characters that sometimes fail to come across in a visual medium. Break the Stage, the book, is a novelization of the script. Because of my first book and the adaptation of a novel I did for a production company with the rights to The Trials of Adrian Wheeler, I now get asked to adapt other books to screenplays or the reverse, novelize a script. That assignment led to them optioning a series of scripts and even some unfinished projects of mine they liked because they are looking for movies with a positive message for young people.īoth TV and feature filmmakers have fallen in love with adaptations of novels, especially but not exclusively true stories. Getting hired to write the screenplay for Break the Stage came as a result of striking up a conversation with a director while working out at a fitness center. Can you talk about that story and its genesis? Your most recent novel, Break the Stage, is based on screenplay you wrote for a movie that is now being filmed. Being in LA and in a position to make personal connections is certainly a plus, but in no way is it necessary anymore. The sources available online make it possible to be a screenwriter anywhere. Is it possible to be a screenwriter working in Colorado, or do you have to fly to the West Coast a lot? If you haven’t already, be sure to also read Part I of this interview. Wolter is a screenwriter, author and producer with more than twenty screenplays to his credit. She is a contributing editor for Short Story Writer and has had more than a thousand articles and essays published in newspapers, magazines and literary journals, including The New York Times.Įrik V. Lori is the founder of the Boulder Writers’ Workshop and works as an independent writing teacher and coach. The following interview was conducted for the Boulder Writers’ Workshop by Lori DeBoer. ![]()
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