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Making Hostage.
Big Bad Bruce.
It was our first morning at the location. The set, a neo-modern house the art department had dressed up into looking more like a comfortable fortress, would serve as central focus for the next four weeks, most of which would be long and cold nights. The geography was pretty steep, a hillside high above Malibu, [...]
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Writer’s Nightmare.
I’d just typed FADE OUT for the umpteenth time in my short career. The draft was neat and a tightly wound one hundred and fifteen pages of thrills and chills. It felt bulletproof and as close to perfect as anything I’d yet fashioned. Once it was bound by three brass brads and a cover page, [...]
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See No Evil.
This one’s about a kind of evolution. To be more acute, it’s about my own twisting journey. From a puppy writer to who I am today and some earth-shaking obstacles between. Follow and see if this vibrates your own tuning fork. But first, the beginning. I’d submitted a short film script to one of my [...]
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Mi Casa Es Su Casa.
A few nights back I was having dinner with some new friends when I was reminded of this story. I was describing a conversation I’d had with director Florent Siri during pre-production on Hostage. Most of the movie takes place in and around a very special mountaintop house I’d invented for the movie. Modern, architectural, [...]
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Pardon My French.
So here’s the scene. It was a twisted bit of drama. The young psychotic played by the brilliant Ben Foster had lashed the nubile, object of his obsession to her girlish bed. Though the character had never done this before, he’d probably seen it in a few movies, adding fuel to his dark fantasy. The [...]
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My Tailhook with a Bond Girl, Part 2.
We’d survived our death-defying, two-whiffs-then-a-bulls-eye landing aboard the naval aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Nimitz. My comrades—former Bond Chick, saucy minx, and all around gamer, Serena Scott Thomas, along with actor Jonathan Tucker and producer David Wally—regained our digestive cool in time for a quick photo-op with some of the onboard brass before being whisked below [...]
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My Tailhook with a Bond Girl, Part 1.
Saying showbiz is full of perks is like saying there are swamps full of alligators down in Florida. And by perks I’m not talking about the swag or that choice table at a Sunset Strip steak joint. I’m talking about experiences related to the job. I’ve been lucky enough to scuba dive for treasure off [...]
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Live Free or Die of Pneumonia.
It was the day we burned the Hostage set. Bruce ambled onto the soundstage and dropped a script onto my lap. The title was DIE HARD 4.0. I could tell by the date it was the most recent writer’s attempt at the fourth installment of the series. “Do me a favor and read it will [...]
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Big Bad Bruce.
May 20, 2013It was our first morning at the location. The set, a neo-modern house the art department had dressed up into looking more like a comfortable fortress, would serve as central focus for the next four weeks, most of which would be long and cold nights. The geography was pretty steep, a hillside high above Malibu, [...]
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That Screenplay Thing I Do.
May 13, 2013“So whaddayou do, Doug?” It’s the usual, socially interactive question. Adults, stuck in the same mini-sphere, in this particular case it’s at a Little League team party hosted at my San Fernando Valley compound. Okay, it’s not really a compound. Nor is it a hacienda. It’s just your basic suburban domicile with a man-cave-slash-writing-lair in [...]
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Writer’s Nightmare.
May 06, 2013I’d just typed FADE OUT for the umpteenth time in my short career. The draft was neat and a tightly wound one hundred and fifteen pages of thrills and chills. It felt bulletproof and as close to perfect as anything I’d yet fashioned. Once it was bound by three brass brads and a cover page, [...]
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You’re Fired.
April 29, 2013I think I was twenty-five years old. Pretty young to have come to the conclusion that the man who’d helped me cross over the threshold into showbiz had to be shown the proverbial exit. My career was showing some lift and it was already painfully clear that the sweet old agent wasn’t going to be [...]
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A Million Dollar View.
April 22, 2013In a rare early collaboration, I co-penned a script with friend and former agent, Rick Jaffa. Though the partnership eventually collapsed under the weight of unreasonable expectation, the screenplay we wrote possessed a certain fire. It was a World War II action comedy titled Hell Bent and Back. Over six weeks, we’d channeled the best [...]
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