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Only Adam Levenberg has seen Frostbite... unless he breached confidentiality then Huston, we have a problem. Actually, it's entered into Page this year, so we'll see how it fairs. Spent enough money on it over the years to be a contender at bare minum least.
This is to give you a feel for what it's all about, though... Did this real quick like a few months back. Need to go back when I get my new PC and do a better one... Got me a new tablet, dual screen flip and nothing to use it on.
'Christmas on Division Street' was the first screenplay I ever read. There's kind of a story as to how I came across it.
It was 1990. I was in fourth grade and our class was selected to be extras in a movie called 'The Hitman'. (I don't think filming ever finished. Or the movie was never released. I've never came across it anywhere and still can't find it.)
We did two days of filming and after the second day, the producers or director or whoever they were kept my friend Josh and I, (our parents had to be called since they had to get the rest of the class back), and they had us read from the script 'Christmas on Division Street'.
They called my parents a couple days later, and I went and read again. Never heard anything else though until about a year later.
For some reason, before Christmas break, our class got a copy of the shooting script for 'Christmas on Division Street' (it was printed like a newspaper) and right on the opening page was Fred Savage's smiling face.
Needless to say, Josh and I bashed the Wonder Years whenever we heard anybody talk about it.
A couple weeks later after I had gotten called back for another read, my friend Josh got a call and he got to go audition for 'Cop and a Half'. I forget who ended up getting that part.
But yeah, since I was even writing back then, I copied 'Christmas on Division Street's structure and formatting for all the stories I wrote after that. Even numbering my scenes and everything.
My uncle worked as a writer in Hollywood many years ago, primarily television. His credits include MASH, Newhart, Magnum PI, and for you hardcore TV trivia buffs, the infamous SuperTrain.
He wrote the first script I ever read -- a pure spec, called The Gypsy Flyer -- a historical piece about a couple of hard-ass dudes that ran a bus service in Latin America -- then they (and their armoured bus) got sucked into some kind of civil war going on down there -- complete with a sadistic General and a hot, fiesty Latina damsel in distress.
A really nice action piece that was apparently considered by Paul Newman at one point. Or maybe it was Steve McQueen. Anyway, really big names at the time, and lots of buzz around the script, but as is so often the case, nothing ever really came of it.
I was just a kid, but have been hooked on scripts from that point forward -- proudly penning CLAWS while still in middle school -- a thriller that concerned giant, killer crabs. Good stuff, that one.
My uncle long ago quit the business -- sick of it, I think -- studied theology and is now an Episcopal minister.
Which just might tell you all you need to know about Hollywood.
I was just a kid, but have been hooked on scripts from that point forward -- proudly penning CLAWS while still in middle school -- a thriller that concerned giant, killer crabs. Good stuff, that one.
Now THAT is a movie I'd love to see!
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My uncle long ago quit the business -- sick of it, I think -- studied theology and is now an Episcopal minister.
Which just might tell you all you need to know about Hollywood.
For me, it was Sherlock Holmes, about 2 years ago. I never finished it, was just curious on how they wrote the action scenes. But that's the one which got me into everything.
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