Exclusive: Author Dana Schoel On His Book "Young Steve McQueen: His Incredible Life Before Stardom".
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By Dana Schoel
The best place to start when telling how I came to write a screenplay about Steve McQueen is somewhere in the middle, around the time Netflix came knocking and asked me to develop a project about the King of Cool. To be precise, Netflix held a pitch session in 2018, in Montreal, where I live. Members of the Writer’s Guild of Canada (experienced screenwriters) were invited to a swanky hotel, where we went one-by-one into different rooms to meet the heads of various departments at Netflix. I met with the head of Independent Film Acquisition. My project was about a young Steve McQueen —a coming of age story, which ends before he gets into acting; lots of amazing things happened to him before he became a star, and in my view, those formative years were the most interesting and dramatic.
By Dana Schoel
The best place to start when telling how I came to write a screenplay about Steve McQueen is somewhere in the middle, around the time Netflix came knocking and asked me to develop a project about the King of Cool. To be precise, Netflix held a pitch session in 2018, in Montreal, where I live. Members of the Writer’s Guild of Canada (experienced screenwriters) were invited to a swanky hotel, where we went one-by-one into different rooms to meet the heads of various departments at Netflix. I met with the head of Independent Film Acquisition. My project was about a young Steve McQueen —a coming of age story, which ends before he gets into acting; lots of amazing things happened to him before he became a star, and in my view, those formative years were the most interesting and dramatic.
- 11/13/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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