I mean, the bigger production companies rarely hand out assignment work to anyone who isn’t super-proven. DF: Yeah, I was very lucky.

You have what you consider to be a good script. Did you learn anything from that or know why it happened?
And anyone can get a computer and buy Final Draft. Reach as many people as possible. We did a lot of improvising.

Crazy to think he broke in with his very script.

So many things just worked for him at the right times. I wish I had more time to really get into the details of all that but I hear directing a film takes a lot of time so I guess I’ll let Dan off the hook.

One must only ever do things without expectations BUT work hard and make strong efforts. I thought of that a lot. Now, my fiancée and I have a little ranch that I go up to by myself, usually without her.

SKA: First of all, I want to thank you for writing and directing the film, Danny Collins; at the center of your film happens to be one of my favorite musical artists, John Lennon. DF: It’s not well known … It’s a young, young, young Tom Hanks before he was a gigantic star. Here are two interesting comments relevant for screenwriters [emphasis added].
I love the fact that you wrote such a strong woman’s part for her. I watched it very closely, and I’m like, “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, and then you know?”. It was a no holds barred verbal altercation on Kate's (Chrissy Metz) front lawn after Kevin found out what Randall did. By the end … I think it’s not relatable in quite the same way. You don’t want to tread into schmaltz or to saccharine. I know how it plays for people, and I hope it does well because of that. Crazy Stupid Love was kind of a game changer for me.

I wish you continued success and remember to stay humble and not be a d’bag!

DF: Well, maybe. My mom took me to see the movie Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason. The final scene of this movie is very emotional for people. I think their last round had over 1000 entries? Enjoyed it. You know what we’ve been doing?

It had a doo-wop opening, but it was never paid off. Interviews like this are always inspirational to hear. What are you trying to show in your film about fathers and sons? Just enter the contest anyway and stop self-sabotaging. John Lennon had read the interview he did as a young man in 1970 and wrote to him saying, “You control your destiny. Well, thank you for that answer. But now I’m gonna make it a double feature on Saturday afternoon. So imagine my surprise when I open up SS and see an interview from one of the top writers in the game. I just recently found this place too (like last week).

For anyone else, don’t go there looking for scripts in development or pre-production.

You cast Adelaide Kane as Kate and Toby's future daughter. Budget isn’t specifically announced. You control your art.

C should honestly do an article that explains the separation in Hollywood from “selling scripts” versus having them made. Dan Fogelman is known primarily for his writing skills in Hollywood. Crazy, Stupid, Love made 142 Million worldwide. In the film, I really sense a charm offensive from her. All images are used with permission or licensed. I’m gonna go work on my script.

In other words, he is the embodiment of the screenwriting dream. DF: The thing is, I wrote Last Vegas before The Hangover, and while I was writing it, The Hangover came out and I actually thought, ‘Oh this’ll never get made now.’ It takes movies so long to get made that it’s the nature of the beast that you’ll write a movie, it doesn’t get made right away, something similar gets made in the meantime, then your movie comes out, and it looks like you wrote it because of this other movie. Are you planning to play more with episode structure in the second half of the season?

Something we should all aspire to do!

He says interesting things that I use to this day. Amidst the immense success of This Is Us on NBC, series creator Dan Fogelman makes the move back to the big screen with his sophomore feature directing effort, Life Itself. I’ve taken a lot of characters and used them for a lot of TV shows or elements for funny scenes. I raised two sons, so I know about different moments. DF: They’re both really restrained, I think, in the movie, which is … You could imagine, if you told me Bobby Cannavale and Al Pacino in a scene fighting, you would think it was the biggest, most gigantic, explosive … They’re both so restrained and, I think, real in those scenes together. We have a big storyline planned for Mandy in the next upcoming season in present day, as an older woman, and also her past timelines. When Folgelman heard of the situation (the advice given by Lennon, only forty years too late), he envisioned a story with a guy who really could have been helped. Amazing writer, amazing interview. Then, usually, it’s a lot of time rewriting. How do you know when enough is enough? But you might be bummed out afterwards, if you don’t enter. And buy a Powerball ticket. As accomplished, famous, and talented as they are, it was a very comfortable set to do that kind of thing.

I KNOW! I’d hate to think he could just toss off a good script. I got very lucky.

Watch: ‘The Predator’ Cast Debates Whether They’d Rather Fight a Predator or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dutch, ‘The Nun’ Director Corin Hardy Plays Would You Rather at an Ex-Convent. Fogelman: It's a good question. That’s why I love movies so much, because they can. Go for it. What a great story. Keys to the Screenwriting Craft: Think Concepts, The Path of Least Resistance to Get Representation in Hollywood, Writing a Logline for a Character Driven Drama. ‘Here’s my advise to you — Go home.’ It’s a thing. Characters which beckon us into their lives episode after episode to learn more about them and how they will cope with unfolding situations and challenges. Go to here – http://writetoreel.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?8-Read-Scripts. DF: It happens every time, it’s one of those, and I hope it will do well critically and stuff, but these movies are hard to gauge like that. Anyway, a long-winded way of saying I thought it was important to frame that this really did happen to someone so it didn’t just seem like, “Oh, a guy had a crazy idea for a movie.” This really happened in real life.

And you can tell by 5 pages whether it’s going to work or not – and you get emails about the premise and how it’s nothing that’s ever been seen before, but 9 times out of 10, your first script isn’t going to sell.

I’ve read several articles regarding screenwriting but Fogleman’s answers are some of the most honest. It’s this core human dynamic, fathers and sons, and they don’t tend to talk about feelings much. At the time I’d written these scripts that were taking so much time to get through the system (The Guilt Trip and Last Vegas), and they just weren’t coming together- the scripts were there, people liked them, but they weren’t moving.

It’s an interesting thing. Just curious – how did you land such a big fish in the first place? It’s like, “Let’s see what I got for myself.” It’s like giving yourself a Christmas present.

And there’s no real answer for that. I’ll be a little more productive tonight than usual.

And so I decided to go out and write something without any obligations, something where I didn’t have to please anyone, and that was Crazy Stupid Love. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Because I like trying to continue to find where that line is, where you can really make people feel in a way that you want a movie to make you feel. SKA: What else would you like to say to our readers and listeners about the movie Danny Collins? That must’ve been a HUGE deal. I actually had the chance to read Imagine a year ago, and indeed, based on that and Crazy Stupid Love I can pretty much agree, like them or not, this guy can sure write readable scripts! Considering Carson’s comment (yesterday) on old people, he should have asked Fogelman about why he chose to direct a bunch of doddering geezers.

Saul Bass shoots over a stink eye to Cosmo and ignores. We’re shy.

It started with his 2.5 million dollar sale for Crazy, Stupid, Love, was followed by a 3 million dollar sale for Imagine (a movie he’ll make his directing debut on) and ended with a “Political Jerry Maguire” pitch that sold for 2 million. Dan Fogelman shares what he learned from Life Itself test screenings and plays Would You Rather with Olivia Wilde, Mandy Patinkin, Olivia Cooke, Laia Costa and Sergio Peris-Mencheta. I love how you included a photo of him and a little bit of him at the end of the film.


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