Re: Literary Greats With Whom you'd Want to Co-Write
not all greats but...
Paddy
Wilder
Colin Higgins
Waldo Salt
Lorenzo Semple Jr
"I ask every producer I meet if they need TV specs they say yeah. They all want a 40 inch display that's 1080p and 120Hz. So, I quit my job at the West Hollywood Best Buy."
- Screenwriting Friend
Re: Literary Greats With Whom you'd Want to Co-Write
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, any of those roaring boys of the 1590s, and only if Jonson kept his rapier to himself. I'd also have to skill up on the language, lots of 'f's' where there are now only 's's'.
Re: comtemporary writers, listen to rather than write with.
Forthcoming: The Annual, "I JUST GOT DUMPED" Valentine's Short Screenplay Writing Competition. Keep an eye on Writing Exercises.
...then, again, he might resent my correcting all of his errors and re-examining all of his source references for revised editions of his works. I'd probably get into arguments with his buddies, Theodore Dreiser and Tiffany Thayer; but, I might get some good coverage for my screenplays from one of his fans, Ben Hecht.
Re: Literary Greats With Whom you'd Want to Co-Write
Neil Diamond
Screenwriting is like stripping. You don't just dump your clothes on the floor. You tease as you go. And then you get screwed in a back room for money. - Craig Mazin
Re: Literary Greats With Whom you'd Want to Co-Write
Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier and Saki.
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Possibly H.P. Lovecraft (but only if he could keep his opinions on race to himself while we were writing.)
Re: Literary Greats With Whom you'd Want to Co-Write
I don't think I'd want to write with someone who's a "literary great" though I'd get a bang out of being in a cafe with Hemingway, or Faulkner or Steinbeck or Garcia Márquez or Cortázar. Or Neruda. And Billy Wilder.
Wait. GOT ONE:
Re: Literary Greats With Whom you'd Want to Co-Write
Oh yeah, Bill Martell.
Bill, I write comedy. Tell me we don't have Rush Hour 4 on our hands! (or is it 5 now?)
Screenwriting is like stripping. You don't just dump your clothes on the floor. You tease as you go. And then you get screwed in a back room for money. - Craig Mazin
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