“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Welcome to episode 528 of the Selling Your Screenplay podcast. I’m Ashley Scott Meyers, screenwriter and blogger of its sellingyourscreenplay.com. Today I am interviewing Ryan Smith, an indie filmmaker working far from Hollywood. And today I have him on to talk about his new feature film, Eldrick USA, a zombie apocalypse horror musical. Yes, a zombie musical. We dig into this film and talk about how he got it produced. I would say two of the biggest influences on my own early interest in filmmaking was the original Star Wars, which doesn’t really have anything to do with this conversation, but also Jesus Christ Superstar. I remember the first time I saw Jesus Christ Superstar as a kid and I was just blown away with it. The overall story, how they were able to put it together with music and tell this great story with the actors singing part of the dialogue. I also had this dream, you know, I always had this dream of sort of putting together a musical, but I’m not at all musical. So, I had a lot of questions about how all of this comes together from the writing angle. How does a writer work with a composer to write songs that are actually sung by the actors and help tell the story. And this is a really interesting case study for that. While he definitely has some musical Brain, definitely has some musical background. He did work with a composer and someone to write the lyrics and to write some of these songs to work with him to do all that. And he goes into it in detail. So, it’s really interesting, at least to me, as someone who is really sort of interested in potentially making a musical and stuff. It was interesting just hearing him talk about it. So, stay tuned for that interview.
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