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Michael Werwie. Writer: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Michael Werwie is the award-winning screenwriter and producer of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) and Lost Girls (2020). Both movies world premiered at Sundance and were acquired by Netflix.
- January 1, 1
- Writer, Producer
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Michael Werwie
Jan 8, 2013 · 7 min read. ·. Jan 8, 2013. Michael Werwie’s original screenplay “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile” not only won the young screenwriter a 2012 Nicholl fellowship, it also landed on the 2012 Black List, garnering 31 votes, the 7th highest total of any script on the list this year.
- When Did You Realize You Wanted to Become A Writer?
- Where Do You Find Inspiration, Or Motivation, For Writing scripts?
- Take Us Through Your Writing Process.
- How About The Rewriting Process?
- Do You Look For Outside Feedback throughout?
- What Is A Typical Day of Writing Like For You?
- How Do You Get Out of A Rut When You Have Nothing on The Page One Day?
I wanted to work in storytelling from a very young age. Before I knew how to spell, I was drawing a lot. My favorite movie as a kid was Jaws. I saw it when I was way too young, and I was just so fascinated by sharks. Then, as I learned to spell and actually write words, I would borrow the neighbor’s typewriter and make the stories look like novels....
In the early days, there were many scripts that I spent way too much time on. There was a particular script that I spent three years on, and people kept telling me I should give up on it and move on to something else. I didn’t. I stuck it out, and this was the script that finally attracted the interest of a manager. The lesson I took away from that...
If it’s based on a true story or some world that I don’t know a lot about, then I will research until I feel proficient enough to enter that world. With Extremely Wicked, I spent three or four months reading and watching and listening to everything I could find and just immersing myself completely. But at a certain point, you have to put that away ...
The true art form, I think, is the rewriting phase. Once I get those first couple of drafts done, then the real work begins. I like to re-outline my scripts after I’ve done a few drafts. The story can change a lot in rewrites. With Extremely Wicked, because the events are the events, and I always knew where I was going to start and end, structurall...
I think feedback is essential. I wait until I get a draft that I feel is functional and doesn’t have any glaring problems that I can’t solve on my own, and then I have several different readers that I’ll cycle different drafts through to get their perspective. I lose all objectivity once I’m working on something for a year or more, and I can start ...
I’m freshest in the morning before I’ve done any emails or phone calls or read the news. I’ll wake up early. Once I make coffee, I try to get to work. If I can get a good several hours in, say, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, I consider that a great day. Sometimes it’s only an hour or less. Especially when I was bartending and I didn’t have the whole day a...
I get stuck all the time. I think it’s part of the process, but I don’t think about it as writer’s block anymore. I find myself prejudging the material before it’s time to do that. That can be paralyzing. That’s typically one of the symptoms. Otherwise, it’s just laziness. A lot of times I just don’t feel like doing it. If I don’t have willpower th...
Feb 23, 2024 · February 23, 2024 10:14am. Michael Werwie Hope Rosemary. EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has locked down rights to an untitled adult thriller spec from Michael Werwie ( Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil...
- Matt Grobar
Oct 7, 2019 · Screenwriters Guinevere Turner (authoress of this year’s Manson movie, Charlie Says) and Michael Werwie (screenwriter of Netflix’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile) will sit down as...
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is a 2019 American biographical true crime drama film about the life of serial killer Ted Bundy. [2] Directed by Joe Berlinger with a screenplay from Michael Werwie, the film is based on Bundy's former girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall's memoir, The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy.
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May 1, 2019 · The writer Michael Werwie adapted the book into a screenplay, which became the movie Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Vile, and Evil, airing on Netflix May 3, starring Zac Efron as Bundy and Lily...
