Go Into The Story Interview: Michael Kujak

My interview with 2021 Black List writer.

Michael Kujak wrote the original screenplay “Follow” which landed on the 2021 Black List. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Mike about his creative background, his script, the craft of screenwriting, and what making the annual Black List has meant to him.

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

Part 1: “We had a drunken handshake deal. We saved up $5,000 over five months. Then on New Year’s Day of 2014, moved out to LA.”

Part 2: “I wasn’t following influencers on YouTube, but we met kids that were nineteen years old, and they had a million dollars, and they lived in a mansion in the Hills.”

Part 3: “It’s a very fun but a very tricky game of figuring out what to reveal about the two characters. What do we share with the audience?”

Part 4: “There’s other stalker movies that you know the person’s batshit crazy by page 10. I didn’t want to do that.”

Part 5: “I’ve read every Black List script for the last six or seven years. They all leak on a Reddit screenwriting thread. I would read one a week till I’d worked my way through the list.”

Part 6: “Finish what you start. You have to finish that story to see what it is and learn lessons that you need to learn about storytelling.”

Mike is repped by:

John Zaozirny (Bellevue)
CJ Fight (WME)

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