“Behind the Curtain: Discover How One Journalist is Unearthing the Untold Stories of Hollywood’s Hidden Screenwriters”

You’ve been championing screenwriters for years through Script Apart and numerous interviews. What first sparked your interest in exploring the work of writers across the indie-to-blockbuster spectrum?

I think it started when I first moved into film journalism in 2018 (previously, I’d written primarily about music) and noticed an almost total erasure of screenwriters from the conversation around film.

Al Horner

As a journalist, I was never offered time with the screenwriter for a new movie. Actors? Sure. Directors? Absolutely. But screenwriters? Seldom ever. In press releases about new movies, I’d regularly have to scroll deep into the body of the email to see who wrote the film, if that information was included at all (often, I’d have to do my own Googling to find out). And that struck me as kinda crazy.

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