Video: Eric Roth

Interview with the award-wining screenwriter of Forrest Gump, Dune, and Killers of the Flower Moon among numerous other notable films.

Via Deadline:

Few living screenwriters boast the credits of Eric Roth, even before he teamed with Martin Scorsese on an adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Besides his Oscar-winning job adapting Forrest Gump, Roth’s work includes Dune, A Star Is Born, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Good Shepherd, Munich, Ali, The Insider, The Horse Whisperer and The Postman. He also adapted the lauded graphic novel Here, reteaming with the Forrest Gump trio of director Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.

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Watch here as he shares those experiences and discusses the touchstone films that put him on the path to become the pre-eminent screenwriter of his generation.

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