Q&A: Screenwriter Pen Densham (“Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” “Moll Flanders”
In January 2011, I had the pleasure of interviewing Pen Densham. Here is some background:
Pen Densham is a successful award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director, with an extensive track-record in film and television. Pen is responsible for writing and producing some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, along with some of its longest-running television series including “The Outer Limits.”
Starting with his first job in show business, riding atop a live alligator for a theatrical short film made by his parents, Pen has spent his lifetime in the business of entertainment, selling films and television series, as well as hiring, mentoring and collaborating with A-list writers along the way.
Pen has written “Riding The Alligator” with one clear goal in mind: to write the kind of book he would have loved to have read when he was starting out as a writer-filmmaker. Pen is also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s prestigious School of Cinematic Arts.
Here is the interview: