Inside the Untold Journey of Creating a Hit Movie Far from Hollywood Lights with Adam Burke and Jud Nichols
Ashley
Yeah, yeah, that’s like a Shawshank Redemption moment what you’re describing it. That’s awesome. So, let’s talk about your collaboration. How did you guys actually…So, Judd has this idea and then Adam, what do you do you go back and you start churn, do you do an outline first, you start churning out pages? Do you give them to Judd does he give you notes? Maybe you can just talk about sort of your writing process how it actually works?
Adam Burke
This one was a little different because I think at first I said, I didn’t want to do this. And Judd went to another buddy of his who wrote a 19-page short, something like that, a 20-page short. And Judd handed that to me and I looked at it and I was like, you know, this has some fun moments in it. And I went and met with this guy, his name is Zach. He’s a good friend of Judd’s. I don’t want to, you know more about this whole process than I do, but at a certain point, he’s got a new kid and he didn’t want to pursue making a feature film out of this thing. And so he just said, if you guys are going to make a feature, just, you know, use whatever you want. I think we ended up primarily using like the premise of it being a couples retreat center and a couple of the names. That’s kind of all that stayed, but it was enough to get me motivated to actually dig into this thing. And for me, a lot of like the screenwriting process is sitting there and coming up with these moments, right? And so it’s like, people call them trailer moments or whatever, and it’s just these like small little nuggets, these little, you know, dots that eventually, well, you have got to try to connect. And it’s like, this is a moment that I would love to see between two characters. And this is another moment that, you know, I have no idea how it could work into this story, but visually this would just be incredible. And that’s kind of how it started for me. And then eventually just breaking it down into, you know, acts and then breaking it into moments within the acts. And of course, the character development. We knew two really good actors that we knew were going to be in this. And so, writing to their strengths was a big part of it. And the villain in our film is a character that I don’t think a lot of actors could pull off. And so that was really fun, knowing that we had that ace in the hole with Mike Breeden to play this wild character. And being able to write something that felt very, almost surreal, but we knew that he was going to bring some reality to it.
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