Screenwriter podcast movie#

Screenwriter podcast movie#

Then there’s the narrative about Sharon and how he wrote the OCR bank heist series in the Register 17 years ago, and the long journey that series took to the big screen as an independent movie with a $7-million budget. There’s the tale of the heist itself, which was carried out by a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio, after they learned that President Richard Nixon may have stashed $30 million in illegal contributions and blackmail money at a bank at Crown Valley Parkway and Coast Highway (the bank no longer exists). It will recount the 1994 slaying of Cal State Fullerton student Cathy Torres, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in Placentia. Keith Sharon’s next “Crime Beat” podcast will be grittier.

There actually are three different narratives going on in “Stealing Nixon’s Millions.” “The heist itself is cool, but what happened afterward with the characters is even more cool,” Sharon says. The bank heist podcast is a layered and often-humorous tale that is rare for a genre known for corpses, gore, and gloom and doom. In the “Crime Beat” podcasts, Sharon has discovered a new way to tell his engaging narratives. Now, he hobnobs at times with Hollywood-types as a screenwriter with two movie credits. He began his journalism career in 1981 covering high school football for the Cerritos Community Advocate. Sharon always has been a “let’s do lunch” guy when discussing his craft or conducting interviews for the Orange County Register, where he’s worked at since 1985 (although he left the newspaper four times).Īs an OCR journalist, he’s tackled everything from sports, education, cities, investigations, and general assignment stories. “Remind me to tell you about the time I saw (a preview of “Finding Steve McQueen”),” Sharon said over lunch on Friday, Feb. Sharon wrote the original screenplay for “Finding Steve McQueen,” whose release date, coincidentally, comes 17 years to the day after the movie based on Sharon’s first screenplay, the Robert DeNiro-Eddie Murphy cop buddy movie spoof “Showtime,” came out.įor Sharon, almost any question about the “Crime Beat” podcast – or pretty much anything – unspools into a story behind the story. It also is the subject of a movie, “Finding Steve McQueen,” which hits the big screen and streaming services March 15. The podcast is based on a 10-part series Sharon wrote for the Register in 2002. history, in 1972 in Laguna Niguel, is approaching 5,000 downloads with listeners in 20 countries.Įpisode three of the 30-minute podcast, “Stealing Nixon’s Millions,” is available tomorrow, Valentine’s Day, with the remaining three coming out on the following consecutive Thursdays. The podcast, which recounts the biggest bank heist in U.S.

The veteran Orange County Register reporter’s “Crime Beat” podcast, produced by Sharon’s employer, Southern California News Group, debuted Feb. Don't forget to check out our podcast photo gallery here and subscribe to the **Empire Podcast **via our iTunes page or this handy RSS feed.That’s no surprise, since he’s been telling stories for nearly four decades as a journalist, screenwriter, and, now, podcaster. Even better, you could just go watch **Michael Clayton **first, as it's well worth your time. In fact, if you haven't watched Michael Clayton already, you may want to jump forward about five minutes from around about the 20 minute mark to avoid spoilers.

Look forward to details on the future of the Bourne franchise, his take on the current state of play in Hollywood, and why Michael Clayton wouldn't get made today. Goyer - we asked Gilroy to drop by the Empire Podcast booth afterwards to talk about how he battles writers' block and brings his ideas to the big screen. In town for a special BAFTA and BFI screenwriters' lecture series - click this way for more on that front, from Hossein Amini to David S. Tony Gilroy is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, the pen wielder behind the original **Bourne **trilogy and his own directorial work, such as Michael Clayton (which got him his Oscar nod), Duplicity and, most recently, The Bourne Legacy.