Inside the Untold Journey of Creating a Hit Movie Far from Hollywood Lights with Adam Burke and Jud Nichols
Adam Burke
When I was a kid, I loved movies, I mean, who doesn’t? And I just didn’t think that there was a realistic way, a realistic avenue to get into them. And so, I went to college and I became a chiropractor and then I ended up getting in trouble, had to go sit in prison for a few years. And when you’re in prison, you realize when you get out, everything’s going to be different and you have to reinvent yourself, whether you like it or not. And so, I was sitting there thinking, I don’t really care what anybody thinks at this point. So, I’m going to try some of the stuff that I thought would have been cool when I was a kid. And I started getting books about screenplay writing. I read Syd Fields’ screenplay. I had my sister send me some actual screenplays. And the first one I read was Judd Apatow, knocked up. And I read it like five times. I’m like, this is so cool to see it on the page after I’ve seen it so many times on the screen. And I didn’t understand structure until I started ingesting that information. And then I just read more and more books and eventually just started writing. And you meet some very interesting people in prison. And so, there’s a lot of stories floating around. There’s a lot of pain and there’s a lot of hilarious moments and just finding inspiration from that, putting it down on paper. And when I got out, I knew I wanted to give this thing a shot. So, a friend of Judd and mine introduced us to each other and said, you guys should meet. And we met, I found out he’s a criminal defense attorney, which is kind of serendipitous or ironic, if anything. And then we decided to make a short together. So, we made like a sketch comedy and it was a blast. And then we made another short and another short. And then we decided to take on this massive project of making a feature film.
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