Screenwriters Roundtable: Chris Borrelli, F.

2013 Screenwriters Roundtable

My conversation with Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, and John Swetnam.

Between them, they have sold more than a dozen spec scripts and have multiple original screenplays on the Black List. Here is the 2013 conversation featuring Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, and John Swetnam.

Here are links to all six installments of the interview:

Part 1: “Writing scripts is fun, but I’d rather be making movies.” — F. Scott Frazier

Part 2: “I’ve watched certain things I’ve written be kind of screwed up over my career, and I want to screw them up. Why not me? I can screw it up, too.” — Chris Borrelli

Part 3: “If I could translate just a bit of advice for anybody that might be reading this, I would say if you’re going to write something to break in, you probably want to target that under 15 million range, something that has the potential to be read by as many buyers as possible.” — Greg Russo

Part 4: “In terms of staying immersed, a lot of the elements of the story sort of made my head hurt. Kind of just coming in every day and looking at it. I probably read the book 50 times and that’s probably not an exaggeration.” — Justin Rhodes

Part 5: “ I do think that if the audience really cares about a character, they’ll follow you anywhere. You can be the best at plot in the world, but if people don’t care about who they’re looking at up on the screen, then it’s not going to matter.” — Chris McCoy

Part 6: “I think it also comes down to everybody’s process is completely different. I know some writers that do three, four, or five-page bios on their characters. Some can just do a paragraph.” — John Swetnam

Entire Roundtable Conversation

Thanks to all involved and the best of luck in your writing careers! We look forward to seeing the many movies you write hit theaters in the future.

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