Hey everyone!
Hope you're having a great not-quite-Thanksgiving-yet weekend.
I'm a screenwriter, originally from London, but based in LA. I've managed to garner a few awards for my work, and recently won the Stage32 Search For New Blood Contest.
My career started in theatre and live events, and evolved into music video and film, and since relocating to the US, my day job has been in motion design and visual effects. It's a long story.
Growing up on Star Wars, Stephen Spielberg, Clive Barker and David Lynch made me a genre writer - though I lean most heavily into fantasy and horror, I love science fiction, thrillers and anything with a hint of the unusual. Currently working on another horror feature, a supernatural crime thriller for TV, and a couple of things that are sort of - but not quite - biopics.
I'm extremely grateful that this community exists, and looking forward to getting to know people!
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From one of the semi-finalists in that contest, congrats, Richard!
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Congratulations, Richard! Good to meet you. What are you watching these days?
Hi, there my name is Gary Jeanty. I am from Miami, Florida. I am a Titanic Historian. After a few years with this incredible idea, I finally put this fantastic romantic story together on the maiden voyage on the Titanic. I am looking to collaborate with people from all walks of life with unique skills and positions to help me with my project. I am open to what you can bring to the table.
The Ship of Dreams is an epic romantic story about a Haitian and French ex-convict named Joseph Pierre. He was sent to prison for drunk driving; as a result, his father dies, and his sister is bound in a wheelchair. Joseph, a Black & Haitian convicted ex-con, found God, forgiveness, and hope during his time in prison. Joseph is an example of going thru hurt, loss, discrimination in his time in prison. After being released early from prison. He forms a strong relationship with his sister Tabatha. She loves her big brother. Tabatha tells Joseph a revelation from God that she is going to walk again. Despite a relationship with his mother, Joseph endures hate, judgment, and ridicule from her.
In this beautiful faith-based film of love, hope, and forgiveness, Tabatha befriends a physical therapist, but the one who can help her resides in Belfast. However, against her mother's wishes, Tabatha makes a trip to Belfast, Ireland, with her brother Joseph. In this beautiful story of hope, a woman living most of her life in a wheelchair once believed she would never walk again and thinks she would never find true love. Edward Goldmann, a Jewish & one of the Top Doctors in Ireland, is smitten over Tabatha. Joseph, an over-protected brother, must now endure his trip back to Haiti without his sister as she stays in Ireland to further her recovery. Now Joseph, with God's help, has to return home to a mother who hasn't spoken to him in years because of his past sins. The Ship of Dream is a story that will have you experience through these characters hope, forgiveness, love, faith, and lots of emotions. The best thing about this all this will boil down on the maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic, the largest moving object ever built.
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Congrats Richard, that is amazing!
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Feeling that same sense of gratitude here. Lovely to meet you!
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Thanks everyone!
John - can't wait to see the look book that we'll be in together. And hug congratulations on getting into the semis! It's a huge deal. And, speaking for myself, the validation is a huge boost!
Normann - I've started watching The Shrink Next Door on Apple, which is just great. Amazing cast, and smart, smart writing. And I've started venturing back in theaters - something I've missed for the last couple of years. Spencer - a biopic of Princess Di, which plays as a psychological horror - is jarring, and surreal, and surprising, and fantastic in equal measures. And I just saw Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which I sort of loved. Is it fan service? Mostly, yes. But I seem to be the fan that the movie is servicing, and it made me very, very happy!
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Richard, so lovely to meet you and a HUGE Congratulations to you!!!
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Great job on your success! I also love horror thrillers! Im extremely new to screenwriting (2yrs) however just entered 2 contests in October with 2 horror scripts fingers crossed and I definitely look forward to this new venture! I look forward to learning so much!
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Congratulations Richard!
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Amazing Richard, huge congratulations on your success. Looking forward to seeing some of those projects come to life.
Morning, Richard. I'm anxious to see Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Ghostbusters is a perfectly balanced movie and a hard act to follow. I didn't hate GB 2. I didn't hate the GB reincarnation with the ladies but I'm ready for someone to "find the soul" of that franchise!
Have you seen a movie on Netflix called Bloody Red Sky?
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So great to meet you and congrats. Love all those influences myself. Would love to check out your screenplay. Sounds awesome.
Hey Casey, I'd be happy to send it over if you wanted a read!
Normann, you're spot on about the balance of the original Ghostbusters - it's scary but funny, it's cartoonish, but has a grounded, gritty New York feel to it,. I don't think the new movie accomplishes that, which is a shame, but it delivers in ways that I didn't expect it to.
I don't know Blood Red sky. Is it worth a look?
Richard: If you’re a horror fan I think it’s worth a look. It tries to shift the vampire paradigm while still maintaining a taught thriller. It’s not a big movie but it certainly keeps moving. If you check it out, I hope you’ll let me know what you think.