Here’s my latest ‘work in progress,’ a wonderful true story I hope to make as a film.
It’s unusual for me as a screenwriter to come across someone’s life story that I feel so compelled to chase on my own. Normally, producers find stories, option the rights, then hire to me to help draft the scripts. Two recent movies I co-wrote were Extraordinary and Indivisible both based on true stories. One comes out in Fall 2017 and the other in 2018. Even though I love coming up with original works of fiction, there’s just something about working on true stories. People relate to them because of that raw honesty that can come from people’s life experiences.
Marcus and Maryann Kauffman
What has turned into the screenplay, Joy Comes, is the story that captured my heart and hasn’t let go since I started working on it.
It’s about firefighter, Marcus Kauffman, who was shot in North Carolina during a home invasion robbery in Dec. 2013 when his…
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