ScreenCraft's Full Q&A with Screenwriter C. Robert Cargill

Описание: ScreenCraft recently hosted a live video AMA session with screenwriter C. Robert Cargill. Mr. Cargill is a screenwriter, novelist, and podcast host, best known as the writer of Marvel's Dr. Strange and both Sinister and Sinister 2, produced by Blumhouse. He's also a judge for the 2020 ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Competition!

ScreenCraft's Tom Dever opens the conversation by asking Cargill to detail the road he's traveled to become a novelist and screenwriter and how he found his way to making movies.

Cargill speaks about the changes he's seen in the industry over his professional career, pitching the film that would become "Sinister" on the Vegas strip, walking the path of an "abnormal career," and taking big chances to become a Marvel screenwriter.

Cargill's openness shines through as he answers questions and explains:
How much does luck factor into breaking into the industry versus talent
What can you learn by making all opportunities about advancing your education
Why failure is the greatest teacher
The importance of finishing a project, even if the "first draft is complete, unreadable garbage"
If he has experienced being pigeonholed and how to avoid being a one-trick pony
The line between elements of horror, fright, and exploitation and where the line exists for him in his work
What horror screenwriters should always keep in mind
Why he avoids cat scares
The role comedy has to play in horror
How he determines what is scary and the process of figuring that out
And much more!

Cargill and Dever finish the conversation with practical advice for screenwriters of every genre and how persistence coupled with the right attitude can pay off.


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