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‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’s Eric Roth: How A Boxer’s Love For Sparring With Prose & Directors Leaves Him On Brink Of Breaking Records
EXCLUSIVE: It is only after Eric Roth invites you to sit on his front porch and discuss screenwriting and the thorny process of making great movies that you find yourself saying, wait, you wrote th…
You wonder why a writer, so unparalleled at distilling a massively successful book like Killers of the Flower Moon into the blueprint for a great movie creatively controlled by a director and not him, would stay in that lane. You cannot argue with the results: Roth has been nominated six times for Best Adapted Screenplay — Forrest Gump, The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Star Is Born and Dune — and another nom would put him past Billy Wilder, one of his heroes. After I did The Film That Lit My Fuse with Roth and he discussed how ingesting LSD helped his appreciation of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the umpteenth time he’d seen it, I knew he would spill the tea on a lot of all our favorite movies.
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