With must-see projects like Dopesick, Recount and Game Change under his belt, Danny Strong knows a thing or two about how to craft the perfect, ripped-from-the-headlines yarn that’s sure to generate Emmy heat.
Here, the writer-director-actor (what, you don’t remember him from Saved by the Bell: The New Class?) gives a five-point masterclass for budding screenwriters.Arthur Miller is one of my writing heroes, along with the films of Sydney Pollack and Sidney Lumet.
They are big inspirations for me when I do these kinds of projects that are very intense and powerful, moralistic and about something.
The perennial is All the President’s Men. The screenplay by William Goldman is sort of the North Star of powerful, immediate, true-life stories.
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