by Asmara Bhattacharya | Jun 13, 2017 | Interviews
What happens when a kid from Arizona devours westerns, crime novels, and comic books? If you’re Luke Paradise, you write The Prodigal, about a soldier who returns to his hometown, Tucson, for revenge against the military corporation responsible for his brother’s...
by Asmara Bhattacharya | Apr 25, 2017 | Interviews
“For every spec you see that I have sold, I have not sold a lot of stuff. I’ve written a ton of things that weren’t that good, which was me chasing the spec market.” In Part I, we talked with Joe Ballarini about Skyward, his script about two families escaping over the...
by Asmara Bhattacharya | Apr 24, 2017 | Interviews
Joe Ballarini has sold a lot of spec scripts. But Skyward, the spec he sold recently to Fox, may be the most consequential one yet. Every writer has that “one special story that you keep in your heart,” says Ballarini. “And this is one of them.” Based on a true story,...
by Roe Moore | Apr 18, 2017 | Interviews
Nick Yarborough is making a splash in the Hollywood scene with his upcoming dark biopics Letters from Rosemary Kennedy and The Secret Life of Dr. James Miranda Barry. A rare native to California, he took time to speak with Final Draft about his experience. RM: How did...
by Roe Moore | Apr 13, 2017 | Interviews
In October 1977, the rock-n-roll world was shaken when the plane carrying band members of Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in Mississippi. The tragic event killed three original band members as well as severly injuring the surviving band member Gary Rossington. Nearly 40 years...
by Asmara Bhattacharya | Mar 30, 2017 | Interviews
Most people know of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who chronicled her two years hiding in an attic during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. The Frank family was subsequently discovered and sent to concentration camps, where millions of people...
