At the top of 2024, I had the best idea I've ever had for a screenplay. We were coming out of the strike, and it felt like every fire I started in 2023 had been put out over the six months we were out of work. I entered the strike on a TV show and with a movie I thought a studio was about to shoot, and I left it as a guy with nothing, who knew he needed another spec to remind the town I existed. So, I sat down to brainstorm a few ideas, and after a ton of brainstorming, I kept coming back to the least commercial one. But it was also my noisiest. After pitching it to my manager, he was surprisingly in on it. He felt like it WAS commercial, and that the growing fervor across America might make it even more commercial by the time I was finished. That's when I decided to write my masterpiece, a script called THE CURE FOR MALE LONELINESS, and I learned one of the hardest and most annoying lessons of my career. Let's dive in. 'John Wick' CREDIT: Lionsgate What Was The Idea? I 'm not sure if you remember January 2024, but the world was in crisis...as a crisis that's still going on. I had the idea of taking the male loneliness epidemic and writing a really dramatic movie about characters dealing with having no friends as adults. Here's the logline: a disillusioned veteran teams up with...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 6 June, 2025