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constant94 t1_izg3qju wrote

What was it like working with Kaitlin Olson?

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shrimptooth t1_izg4848 wrote

Incredible! A very surreal experience to get to work with someone you've been watching and been a fan of for so long. She was insanely funny and made the character infinitely funnier than it was in the script.

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Hamilton_Brad t1_izg69kr wrote

What was the process to get your first script in front of the right person to even be considered?

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shrimptooth t1_izg6u8a wrote

All through social media. I would tweet full scripts out and put them on Reddit. Scripts that had IP that I didn't own. I knew I could never get them made but they would get attention.

I started this website www.WeekendScripts.com where I would take a news story like the Fyre Festival and write a full script in a weekend and people would be so stunned that there was already a movie script about a news story that came out a few days before that it would go viral. Wasn't necessarily that good but it was fast!

Once I had a few viral scripts, I got an agent and then started writing originals like "The Binge"

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anth t1_izj7td8 wrote

this is absolutely fantastic. How many hours were you logging on each weekend scripts on average?

What was your mentality while you were cranking them out? Was it to both practice your craft as well as publish online consistently with the belief that it would eventually get noticed?

What gave you the faith to keep publishing? This must have been untold thousands of hours of work!

To summarize:

How many average hours on each?

What was your mindset and goal?

What kept your spirit alive without any guarantees of success?

Bravo! totally inspired by this.

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BlLLr0y t1_izgbtfx wrote

Can we get a fun Nick Swardson story? I imagine he was hilarious on set.

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shrimptooth t1_izgcrjm wrote

He was so hilarious. He was there the entire shoot so I spent the most time with him. So much incredible improv and riffing and we used probably 90% of it. His first day on set he needed to have this broken leg from falling off a roof. We could never quite get it to look as absurd as we wanted it to. So nick, the wardrobe designer and me got a plunger and some pipe fitting and made a leg that we could fully crank in a 360. It looks insane but Nick made it work and I feel like only he could have pulled that off.

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acmecorporationusa t1_izg7e6y wrote

Congratulations on your success. Have you any advice for an aspiring screenwriter?

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shrimptooth t1_izg98s7 wrote

I just wrote a long response to this and I don't think it went through! Which brings me to my first piece of advice, always SAVE. I gave some damn good advice too.

Basically what I said was that it's most important to FINISH your script. I talk to so many aspiring writers that have an idea, or have an outline or 20 pages of a script. It's so important to just finish so you can see it as a whole and then go back and revise.

And never be too precious because the script will get noted up by producers, studio, directors, actors! It is an ever evolving thing! It's going to change from your original draft. Or maybe I'm just a terrible screenwriter, jury is still out on that one.

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Octopus-Pawn t1_izgi1gs wrote

What’s next?

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shrimptooth t1_izgijr3 wrote

Hopefully a Binge 3! But I think realistically the Dennis Rodman project would be up next. I have a few other things in the works but I find it’s always best to have 30 things going because 29 will fall apart somewhere along the way.

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