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The writers strike conclusion and the magic of the movies with Jake Thornton
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Screenwriter, author, producer, director, Jake Thornton, sums up the wins of the writers strike and shares insights into the war of art and commerce in Hollywood as well as the wonder and awe upon first discovering the world of entertainment.
Jake Thornton was born in London, and attended the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Upon graduating, worked as an actor with credits at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in London’s West End. He worked with acclaimed director, Robert Wilson, and musician Tom Waits on The Black Rider, which toured to A.C.T. in San Francisco, and Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. In 2008 he met Ben Lustig, and discovered they a shared a passion for genre movies and began writing together. In 2014 they sold their first script, Winter’s Knight, a reimagining of the Santa Claus legend told as a Viking action-adventure, for seven figures in a four studio bidding war. Since then, they have become well known for creating original and subversive stories based on well-known characters and tropes, from H.G. Wells, to the stories of the Arabian Nights, as well as adapting novels, comics and video games. They have sold projects to Columbia, SyFy, UCP, Amazon, Warner Brothers TV, and The CW. In 2019 they wrote and developed an adaptation of the video game franchise, Final Fantasy, for Sony TV. In 2020, they sold their original screenplay, The Princess, to Twentieth Century Studios, with Joey King (The Kissing Booth) with Original Film (The Fast and the Furious) and Derek Kolstad (John Wick/Nobody) attached to produce. The film was released domestically on Hulu and internationally on Disney+ in 2022.
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