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Mar 10, 2023 · 65: Directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods. With Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King. An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
- Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
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- How Did You Guys Break in as Screenwriters?
- How Many People Read and Passed on A Quiet place?
- Did You Write The Script on Spec?
- What Was The Project That You First Made Money on as Professional Writers?
- Do You Need to Be Based in La to Have A Career in Screenwriting?
- What Advice Do You Have For Aspiring Screenwriters Around The World?
Scott Beck:We’ve been writing in some capacity ever since we were kids. After writing many scripts throughout high school, and deciding we wanted to pursue filmmaking as a career, our first major milestone was actually a failure. I feel like those have been the things that we learned the most from. So, for instance, we had these meetings at differe...
Bryan Woods: No one actually read and passed on it, but I will say, many, many people passed on the idea. It was something we had been talking about for quite a while, and we would pitch it informally to producer friends or executives that we admired, but they couldn’t even feign enthusiasm for the idea. Their eyes would immediately glaze over. The...
Scott Beck:Yes, entirely. On the virtue of the script not having any dialogue, we initially wrote a 15-page proof of concept, which set up the world, the family, and something hunting them that operates solely on sound. It had the pregnancy beats, and it came to the final sacrifice [at the end of the feature]. It has all the major beats of the stor...
Scott Beck: Our film Nightlight was a project that we wrote on spec. It took a couple of years to crack that one. We lined that up with the production company that produced Sideways and The House of Sand and Fog, which are two of our favorite films of all time. We had that financed by a company called Herrick Entertainment, and we directed that fil...
Bryan Woods:It doesn’t hurt to be in LA, because there’s a lot of contacts. It’s a great way for young writers to come up as an intern or assistant - you get immersed in the business, and your network expands. But, as two filmmakers who stayed in Iowa as long as possible, there’s a lot of opportunity everywhere. We had opportunities to make movies ...
Scott Beck: The most important thing to do is research - read the best scripts of all time. When we were writing A Quiet Place, we kept returning to Alien- which is such a great execution of character. Beyond that, commentaries never hurt either. Podcasts offer insight into not just the process of screenwriting, but how the business works, which is...
65 is a 2023 American science fiction film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and starring Adam Driver. Driver plays an astronaut who crashes on an unknown planet with a challenging environment and attempts to help a young girl, played by Ariana Greenblatt, survive.
- March 10, 2023
Mar 9, 2023 · Mar 9, 2023 2:15pm PT. ‘65’ Review: Adam Driver Battles Dinosaurs and Other Stone-Age Story Ideas in Derivative Thriller. 'A Quiet Place' writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods direct a prehistoric...
Dec 14, 2022 · Film. 65’s first trailer leaves Adam Driver stuck millions of years in the prehistoric past. / Sony’s upcoming time traveling survival thriller from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods pits futuristic...
- Charles Pulliam-Moore
Mar 6, 2023 · Filmmakers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods blend futuristic science fiction with prehistoric dinosaurs in 65. Their premise has a pilot from an advanced civilization crashing on Pangean Earth. Mills...
Mar 9, 2023 · But Beck and his partner Bryan Woods, the original writers of A Quiet Place, are wading into the dinosaur market now. They’re the writer-directors of 65, which stars Adam Driver as Mills, an...
