Bones is Back
After a long hiatus, I have returned to the web to share my extremely personal and peculiar experiences in the Hollywood.
posted by Phil | 1:37 AM
ScreenwriterBones
Stories from a seasoned screenwriter. Take heart! Your creative source is infinite and un-ending. Sometimes Hollywood just rips up the roadmap back to it. The bottom line is that Hollywood is not at all as bad as it sounds. Additionally, it's worse than you can imagine. Remember to pack a sense of humor.
About Me
- Name: Phil
I am a screenwriter living in Southern California. I've written screenplays for most of the Hollywood studios over the past 20 years. One of the uncredited writers of FANTASTIC FOUR, I wrote FIRE DOWN BELOW starring Steven Seagal, and the TV Movie 12:01 PM starring Martin Landau and MANEATER with Gary Busey. I have directed short films. I have written on numerous Hollywood studio assignments, some for big shot actors, some for small shot nobodies.
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Why Screenwriter Bones? Because if you don't feel it in your bones, if you don't have the need to write as much as you have the need to eat, set the compas on anything else but West and keep yourself a good 600 miles out of town.
--- Wordplay
- John August
- The Artful Writer
- Lee Goldberg
- The Thinking Writer
- The Blank Page
- The Screenwriting Life
- By Ken Levine (TV warrior)
- DISContent
- Complications Ensue
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The infinite follows our desires. Our only job is to Seek to Know
--“There are three rules to the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” -- Somerset Maughm
3 Comments:
Hooray! Welcome back. :-)
I can't tell you how happy this makes me...
Three years is a LONG TIME, sir. In fact, I had THREE KIDS during your absence! (a daughter and then twins last January)
I've been getting my script-blog thrills over at Scott Myer's blog "Go Into the Story." You should check it out, you two have a LOT in common. You both inspire. www.gointothestory.com
Again, so glad to see you back Phil!
Just came across your blog--I like it! I saw a comment you left on another site about writing a teleplay based on a short film. I am writing a short film based on one small but pivotal idea from another short film (it was a very well-known short--won an Academy award back in the 1980s). My story has completely different characters, setting, even theme, but uses the "twist" of the story. I'm fine with giving credit to the original film/writer, but do I also have to get permission? I realize you aren't an entertainment lawyer, but any idea about where I could look into this?
Thanks!
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