Go Into The Story Interview: Ian Shorr

My interview with 2022 Black List writer for his script The House in the Crooked Forest.

Here are links to the entire 6-part series which has run this week.

Part 1: “They say you need to write five bad scripts before you write a good one. I wrote fifteen bad scripts before I wrote my first good one.”

Part 2: “The idea was to grab the audience with a type of horror rooted in reality, then ease them into something more fantastical.”

Part 3: “There’s that great quote about parenthood: ‘to live with your own heart outside your body.’ That vulnerability spoke to me.”

Part 4: “My goal is to give the audience at least three to five things that they’ve never seen on a movie screen before.”

Part 5: “I think that newer writers have a tendency to fetishize rules because it makes it seem less scary and random as a business.”

Part 6: “Focus on the things that bring you excitement, because that excitement is going to translate on the page.”

Ian is repped by UTA and Bellevue Productions.

Twitter: @IanShorr

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For my interviews with dozens of other Black List writers, go here.