The Writer:
Scott Frank is one of those writers whose name you should definitely know. He’s up there with the greats like Woody Allen, Billy Wilder, and the Epsteins. A few years back, Scott gave a great lecture for BAFTA that is well worth the listen. In it, you’ll get Scott’s rules of screenwriting.
Scott is the scribe behind such classics as Out of Sight, Minority Report, and Get Shorty.
Credits:
Assassin’s Creed (pre-production) – 2015
A Walk Among the Tombstones (screenplay) (completed) – 2014
Hoke (TV Movie) – 2014
The Wolverine (screenplay) – 2013
Marley & Me (screenplay) – 2008
The Lookout (written by) – 2007
The Interpreter (screenplay) – 2005
Flight of the Phoenix (screenplay) – 2004
Minority Report (screenplay) – 2002
Out of Sight (screenplay) – 1998
Heaven’s Prisoners (screenplay) – 1996
Get Shorty (screenplay) – 1995
Malice (screenplay) – 1993
Fallen Angels (TV Series) (teleplay – 1 episode) – 1993
The Walter Ego (Short) – 1991
Little Man Tate (written by) – 1991
Dead Again (written by) – 1991
The Wonder Years (TV Series) (written by – 1 episode) – 1988
Plain Clothes (screenplay – as A. Scott Frank) – 1987
Quotes:
[On using theme to pull a story together] “In the case of Get Shorty, there was this terrific theme of identity: everybody in Los Angeles wants to reinvent themselves. This loan shark from Miami was no exception. Focus on that, and it helps you organize the book….With Out of Sight, the thematic idea was ‘road not taken’: This man who had early on chosen to be a bank robber meets the one person he really falls in love with—and he’s not realizing he can’t have a life with her because of the road he took. And that becomes sort of a sad story for me.”