Screenwriting : Hello by Mike Miller

Mike Miller

Hello

Hi everyone,

I've been meaning to do this for quite some time. I always seem to run into brick walls and the weekend is over before I know it.

So here I am and HELLO to everyone on this amazing platform. What a great resource this is.

I'm a screenwriter. I'm also a director. I've won many awards for my work in both disciplines.

I only started writing screenplays because, well, there just aren't any great scripts sitting around to be discovered by a director. I had been writing my whole career, so it wasn't new to me. But writing a feature screenplay was. I found I really liked it. And I might be OK at it. A work in progress for sure :)

I currently have a movie, a potential franchise, in development at Universal Studios. An action drama in the motor sport space. I have the first screenplay I wrote, titled Shadowman. It's a drama. I've had some great people come on board to help get it across the line, such as Tim Moore from Malpaso and Rob Barnum (Lansky), but it has eluded us. I think a rewrite is in the plans :)

I also have a couple of doco's. One in the public education space and another doc series in sport.

I've also optioned a novel, a thriller, and I'm trying decide is it a feature or a limited series.

But getting back to being a director, I'm open to directing gigs. My website http://writer-director.com has some examples. I also shot everything that is on there. I shoot as DP and camera operator on all my work.

I am also open to partners who relate to the material and can help package and finance any of these projects.

I'm looking forward to meeting you and talking further.

Hope you are enjoying the weekend.

Cheers, MIKE

Daniel Stuelpnagel

Mike Miller motor sports is one of the most compelling arenas of story I enjoy on-screen and on the page. Very exciting and glad to discover a bit of your origin story! Congratulations on your prolific success and ongoing projects!

I asked a friend of mine who coaches auto race drivers at Summit Point, West Virginia, about the Ford vs. Ferrari movie which I liked pretty well and he had some good things to say about it.

I read Michael Cannell's book, The Limit, three or four times at least, about the 1961 Grand Prix season, this gave me a great deal of inspiration in writing a European thriller that is featured on my profile here, tangentially related only in that I used that energy for choreographing a lengthy multi-car police chase in a heist story, which was really fun.

Of course I saw the Senna documentary that came out around 2010, so poignant and remarkable.

I'm currently working on a screenplay that involves powerboat racing set down in Florida and across the Gulf of Mexico on the Texas coast.

I'll look forward to enjoying your web site, great to see you here!

Mike Miller

Hi Daniel, Great to meet you. It sounds like you are enjoying some solid success. The powerboat racing sounds great. Working on the water needs you to think of a number and then double it for the budget. But done well, it will be a very exciting movie. Good luck with that and please stay in touch. Cheers.

Daniel Stuelpnagel

Mike Miller for sure, great guidance there, I remember hearing all the horror stories about the budget for Water World !! I appreciate your energy very much.

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