From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
Ashley
So, then what is the next transition? So then how did you move into screenplays? You had these novels, you just thought they would make great screenplays. Maybe you can talk about that a little bit.
Vincent Scarsella
Well, what happened was, as I said, when I was working at the grievance committee, I thought it would make good TV and wrote the treatment. And then I went on and wrote a TV pilot based upon the first book. Nothing happened, so I shelved it. But then as like about 20, early 2020, 2021, the idea popped on my head again. I think I was watching Law and Order episode or something. I’m rolling my eyes. And I decided to dust it off and see where it can go. And I did, and it wasn’t great. This was in November of 2022. And I was on Facebook, and I happened to be Facebook friends with a New York City actor by the name of Tom Polino. And he posted that he was going to be on an episode of FBI. And I watched the episode and he had sort of a minimal role, but he’s a very good actor. And so, I contacted him on Facebook on my birthday, November 10 of 2022, and said, hey, I got this idea for a TV series. I went to look at the script, and I’ve been doing that. And I’m not shy about doing that. And usually, they don’t respond. I’m going to say- no, I’m not interested. But he actually said, Yeah, send me the script. And so I sent it to him and we developed a relationship. He liked it. He liked the idea, the concept. And it took two and a half years, but that TV series ended up becoming a feature film.
