Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.Judd Apatow, Saturday Night Live writer Dave Sirus and Pete Davidson came together to pen the script for The King of Staten Island, the dramatic comedy based on Davidson’s life that became one of the first summer movies to bypass theaters for homes during the pandemic.The plot centers on Davidson’s Scott, a twentysomething still dealing with the death of his firefighter father and chasing an unrealistic dream of becoming a tattoo artist – one that pales in comparison to the ambitions of his younger sister (Maude Apatow).
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