Written Interview: Bob DeRosa

Today’s written interview is with screenwriter Bob DeRosa (The Air I Breathe, Killers) and is hosted at myPDFscripts.com:

Q: I know Ted Griffin took a pass or two on Killers, so, as a screenwriter, what’s it like to know that your work is being rewritten? Should writers take offense to it or understand that it’s the nature of the beast and just roll with the punches? 

A: Honestly, it’s no fun, but it’s also a part of this business and should come as no surprise. It helps when I realize that every draft serves a purpose. One draft might get a producer on board, another will get a director, another will get a studio to make offers to actors, another will get those actors, and yet another will get a greenlight. It’d be nice to write every one of those drafts, but, sometimes, you write one or two of them and can take pride in the fact that you did your job. Killers couldn’t have been made without me since I wrote the original spec, but in the scheme of things, it might not have been made without Ted’s work, too. And in the end, we all want the same thing…to get movies made.

Q: Sum up your feelings of Hollywood today and the process of getting a script made into a film. Do you feel that it’s a good process overall?

A: Man, it’s changing so fast. All of a sudden, it feels like writers and their reps need to do all the development work that studios used to pay for. They need to attach directors and actors, create a package that screams out, THIS IS A MOVIE, and then walk into the studio and ask if they wanna make it or no. The downside is there’s a lot less money to be made upfront. The upside is you can put together a package that wants to make the same movie you do. So the chances that you’ll get your movie onto the big screen with your vision intact is much greater than it used to be.

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