New Interview: Ron Riekki

“As far as what’s important in successfully adapting literary fiction for the screen, this is my fifth adaptation from literature to film, but the first to get actual producer attachment. Previously, I adapted two authors I love and then two of my previous plays that were produced. Doing as much adapting is helpful as you learn simply by doing it. If anyone’s planning to come out to Hollywood as a screenwriter, I’d have ten screenplays in your pocket that you’ve written and rewritten.  At least ten. Doing all those screenplays will help you hone finding what is visually interesting, how to tell a story cinematically. But I dunno, feel a bit weird giving screenwriting advice, as I only have things in-development, nothing that’s reached the screen except for the short film Ease that Matt Schutt (Emmy winner for editing) shot based off of my fiction. And L.A.’s such a crazy town that who knows what’s going to come out of this for me. For now, it’s exciting and promising, but we’ll see. Who knows?“

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