by John | Jun 25, 2021 | Interviews, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award, WriteMovies Academy
Hot on the heels of winning our last Grand Prize Contest, Vanisha Renée Pierce has won our Sci-Fi and Fantasy Award with her script EZEKIEL – and to celebrate and give you insights into winning our contests, WriteMovies is doing an exclusive interview with her which you can watch for FREE!
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by John | Oct 19, 2018 | Highlights, Interviews, Updates
In Part One of our exclusive article in conversation with Steven Knight, the writer-director spoke about how he began his career and about the rise of TV drama. Now, in Part Two, we find out about some of his influences and future plans…
Steven explained that PEAKY BLINDERS is based on stories of his parents and uncles, many of which he heard while around his blacksmith father while he was young. Once the BBC took an interest, things moved quickly. With series 1 complete, Steven was looking at potentially making 4 or 5 series of PEAKY BLINDERS.
PEAKY BLINDERS uses some CGI, but mostly uses derelict locations that aren’t about to be knocked down (one key location is the street where Ringo Starr was born!). There was resistance to setting PEAKY BLINDERS in Birmingham (UK) because of the unglamorous accent, but Knight insisted on retaining that authenticity – he believed that we should be telling our own stories of places like Birmingham.
The basic premise of LOCKE (starring Tom Hardy) was a journey from Birmingham to London, where someone starts out with everything and ends up with nothing – exploring how that could happen. If the cost is low enough, you can get creative freedom to run a project your way. LOCKE knocked CAPTAIN AMERICA off number 1 in terms of revenue per screen! It was on vastly less screens of course, but that was still very promising. Knight was determined that the character in that film should be the most ordinary person possible.
He explained that you have to write a three page outline for studios, however unlikely the script was to end up that way. Knight prefers not knowing where a story is gonna go. He writes, then goes back to the start every day and works through from there.
Knight has accidentally become the poster-boy for Birmingham’s drives to move to the next level in its drive to become a major player in global culture. He intends to build a major sound stage in Birmingham as London’s major studios are fully booked, with a ‘halo effect’ of businesses based around it, and from this to also create a scene where live theatre can lead to movies being made.
Ian Kennedy’s conversation with Steven Knight turned out lots of interesting information about the inner working of the industry. If you haven’t read it yet, why not take a look at Part One by clicking here?
by John | Nov 16, 2006 | Archive Articles from WriteMovies
An interview with filmmaker Frank Darbont! Are you the next Drabont or Stephen King? Take your chance to find out be competing in one of our contest – enter HERE! A daily news article from the WriteMovies archive first published November 2006 by Daniel Robert Epstein.
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by John | Nov 13, 2006 | Archive Articles from WriteMovies
An Ed Harris interview from the WriteMovies archive. You could follow in this actor come director’s footsteps by entering our latest contests RIGHT HERE! A featured article from the WriteMovies archive first published November 2006 by Pam Grady.
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by John | Nov 10, 2006 | Archive Articles from WriteMovies
An interview with scriptwriter David Ayer. You could follow in the footsteps of the SUICIDE SQUAD writer by entering our latest contests RIGHT HERE! A featured article from the WriteMovies archive first published November 2006 by Daniel Robert Epstein.
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by John | Nov 7, 2006 | Archive Articles from WriteMovies
An interview with Patrick Creadon. You could follow in this filmmaker’s footsteps by entering our latest contests RIGHT HERE! A featured article from the WriteMovies archive first published November 2006 by Pam Grady.
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by John | Nov 3, 2006 | Archive Articles from WriteMovies
Interview with Pedro Almódovar! You could follow in this auteur’s footsteps by entering our latest contests RIGHT HERE! A featured article from the WriteMovies archive first published November 2006 by Pam Grady.
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