A bunch of you know me already, but here we go:
I'm a produced screenwriter with 1 project on Tubi (CAPTIVE) and another coming next month to Shudder (ELEVATOR GAME). Both have been reported on in Deadline, Fangoria, JoBlo, Bloody Disgusting, and a variety of other movie news and horror news sites.
I've also published a book of screenwriting tips ("365: A Year of Screenwriting Tips"), placed in over 50 contests, been hired to write films and TV, and I'm repped by Sovereign Talent Group.
I write a lot of horror, thriller, and sci-f material. Sometimes dramas. Never comedy beyond the occasional moments of levity in a dark script to give the characters and audience a false sense that everything's fine.
I very much want to get in my first TV writer's room. I'd also love to get to write for comic books.
To date - between features, shorts, and TV scripts... both spec and paid assignments - I've written nearly 140 scripts. Not to mention all the outlines, pitches, bibles, etc.
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Dark scripts; I love it Travis Seppala! Just completed first issue of an indie comic, hoping to get more involved in that industry. Congrats on all your success!
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Almost 140 scripts!? Whoa! That's IMPRESSIVE, Travis Seppala! I plan to check out CAPTIVE this week.
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wow, 140 scripts!!! and I think it's hard to even get one done sometimes, major respect, and what a journey you have had so far!
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Christopher Mosley How'd you get the comic set up? Did you make it yourself (hire an artist, self-pblish, etc) or did you get brought on someone else's project?
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Maurice Vaughan Thanks! Hope you enjoy it.
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You're welcome, Travis Seppala. Looking forward to seeing ELEVATOR GAME too. The trailer looks great!
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Thesy Surface See, writing is IT for me. I've been a producer (hate it!) and I'm an award-winning director of shorts and music videos but I'm not a fan of that either because I feel like such a dick telling other people how I want them to do their job to get the vision in my head on screen. But writing... I'm totally fine playing God on the page! ;) The downside, of course, is getting rewritten so heavily the final films don't resemble what I initially invisioned... which kinda makes me want to try directing and producing again to get what I want on film!
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Sille Larsen Thanks! Yeah. I've been at this since... 2001? So 22 years of writing just constantly! lol
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Maurice Vaughan Sadly both movies are getting... not great reviews. lol
ELEVATOR GAME got very very rewritten by the director and her husband (her husband gets "additional writing by" credit) to the point that I can count the things that remained from my script on one hand.
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Travis Seppala I probably need to get a copy of your book. :)
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Ah, man, Travis Seppala. That's the reality for screenwriters sometimes. At least you got the sales and credits.
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Debbie Elicksen well, then what are you waiting for? Get on Amazon and order it! :P
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Awesome Travis Seppala! Congrats on all your successes! Keep writing!
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I watched "Elevator Game" tonight, Travis Seppala. I saw your name in the opening credits! I liked the movie. Scary stuff! The opening was nerve racking. Haha
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Maurice Vaughan The opening scene is one of the few things in this movie that were still my writing. lol There were some pretty heavy rewrites throughout.
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Cool, Travis Seppala. Glad your opening scene stayed. I'm gonna try and check out "Captive" soon.
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Sup. I want to get my show on Tubi, thatd be lit
https://youtu.be/M2Bh0pthS-s
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Congrats on creating indie horror. Each movie made is such an accomplishment!
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Dr. Muzaffar Shah-khan Good luck!
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Nicolas Simonin For sure! AND thanks to the 2 sales so far (for CAPTIVE and ELEVATOR GAME) I'm now totally debt free! So that's always a plus.
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Maurice Vaughan Enjoy CAPTIVE. That one is significantly closer to my original script with just a few differences (mainly the ages of the characters -- they were meant to be teens, but producers felt casting would be easier if they were adults).