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Cancer, Comedy & Friendship. Who is Will Reiser? He’s the screenwriter and executive producer of the hit comedy “50/50” a film inspired by his own journey of coming to grips with a spinal cancer diagnosis at a young age. Kate Allen Stukenberg chats with Reiser about his emotional inability to deal with the cancer, the often futile but ...
Feb 3, 2012 · When screenwriter Will Reiser was 24 and diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer, he coped by thinking up ideas for cancer comedies with his best friend, actor Seth Rogen.
Reiser attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, graduating in 2003. Career. Reiser first worked as a producer in a number of TV productions, such as Da Ali G Show. In 2005, during his time working as an associate producer, he was diagnosed with a form of spinal cancer at the age of 25.
Oct 3, 2011 · Roughly translated, Adam has a cancerous tumor the size of a small Buick nestled against his spinal column. It’s a scenario that Rogen, who plays Adam’s best pal Kyle in the film, and Reiser...
Mar 29, 2012 · Reiser, for his part, admits that he didn’t write the film to change lives or spark revisions in medical treatment — that would lead to self-censorship and, most likely, those hokey cancer ...
Aug 27, 2011 · Even though the character in the movie has a cancer that’s actually more severe than mine, what the doctor tells him is taken 100% from the diagnostic reports in my files.” You’ve heard the idea that writers use writing as a form of therapy? That would seem to apply for Reiser in the case of this story: Reiser finished the script in 2008.
Nov 8, 2012 · Seth Rogan’s best friend, Will Reiser, wrote the popular 2011 comedy-drama “50/50” and spoke Thursday night about how his experience with cancer was the “genesis” for his feature film debut.
