“Eccentricity, Energy and Emotion.” Harry Bradbeer on ‘Enola Holmes 2’
“I wanted to be an actor at first,” said Harry Bradbeer. “Then I was directed with some great directors in school and the way they would direct us on stage made me start to see things in frames and shapes, then I directed a play. One day I just took a left turn and made […]
“You Have Power as a Writer” Alfred Gough and Miles Millar on Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’
“Wednesday, for us, from concept until now, has been a three and a half year journey,” said Alfred Gough. “We came up with the initial idea which was teenage Wednesday Addams in boarding school. We had to track down the rights and then we pitched it to the Addams Foundation.” As screenwriters, Alfred Gough and […]
“No Such Thing as Copying. It’s an Homage” Author William Indick on ‘Psychology for Screenwriters’
Psychology professor William Indick was teaching theories of personality when he realized his students simply weren’t getting it, so he started doing film analysis in his classes to explain these dense topics with examples from the silver screen. This led to a handful of books including Psychology for Screenwriters, Movies and the Mind, Psycho Thrillers, […]
“Be Brave, But Know What’s Authentic” Author Kim Hudson on ‘The Virgin’s Promise’
“I started out as a field geologist and then I became a land-claim negotiator,” said Kim Hudson. “All of it very masculine, very linear, I would say, and then I had children and thought, ‘what do I authentically want?’ It was the 70s and women were doing ‘everything man can do’ but that changed when […]
“Storytelling Vehicles to Take You to Hell” Robert Eggers & Sjón on ‘The Northman’’
“Folk tales, fairy tales, mythology, the past… I’ve always been interested in that,” said writer/director Robert Eggers. “I don’t entirely know why. I’m more interested in that subject matter than I am in films, maybe, in the end.” The same is perhaps true for Robert’s writing partner, Sjón, an internationally acclaimed Icelandic author who published […]
