Adam King

Actor, Screenwriter, Producer and Director

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Member Since:
October 2013

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About Adam

I believe in the following, in no particular order or preference: breakfast for dinner, tattoos, Nouvelle Vague, film noir, contact sports, Chuck Taylors, meet-cutes, the rule of thirds, punk rock, wide shots, and doing it yourself.

I believe that Han shot first.

I believe that the films of Keaton and Chaplin are to be cherished and studied so that the beauty of that era might still somehow infiltrate the way we make movies today.

I believe that Orson Welles’s adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Magnificent Ambersons, would’ve been the greatest film ever made had it been allowed to exist for the whole world to see in its original 148-minute cut.

I believe that the splendor of visual storytelling lies in its evocation of human empathy, in its thought-provoking presentations of the many human conditions, and in its ability to make us love strangers on a screen unconditionally, and that Robert McKee was right when he said, “Stories are the currency of human contact.”

I believe that the study of film form and its subsequent analyses of both substance and style is a lost art that must be resurrected by the next generation of screenwriters and filmmakers who wish to have this industry taken seriously again as an art form.

I believe (well, I hope) that the stories I humbly submit to you – the casual viewers, the outspoken critics, the celluloid connoisseurs – will resonate on some kind of level with anyone who comes in contact with their words, images, characters, and themes.

And, finally, I believe I’m done.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Weight:
180

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Blue

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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2024-11-05

Double Recommended Screenwriter

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A NIGHTMARE IN '90 Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror ⋄ Sci-fi After a famously reclusive science fiction author claims his son was violently abducted by aliens, a soft-spoken middle schooler suspects his mother’s bizarre death is somehow connected and bands together with his ragtag group of friends to hunt for the truth.
FROM HERE Budget: $100K - $1M | Music ⋄ Drama A washed-up prep school teacher moonlighting as the lead singer of a local 80s hair metal cover band struggles to be a supportive father to his talented and jaded teenage daughter while she writes her first song and he comes to terms with his failed professional music career.
BLACK CAV Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Crime Fifteen years after his parents are murdered during a citywide killing spree, a streetwise college student emerges as a masked vigilante, but he soon discovers he’s unknowingly become a pawn in a sinister villain’s twisted and deadly game.
WESTGATE & WOODLAWN Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Based on true events, an eccentric but lovable Indiana family navigates the highs and lows of domestic life in the 1970s, but they are forever changed when a life-loving Black man and his fiancée move into their mostly white suburban neighborhood.
TO WALK IN DARKNESS Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Drama After she fails to stop the wanton killing of a homeless girl in London, the orphaned daughter of a Yakuza assassin turns rogue against the rival crime syndicate controlling her and teams up with the seasoned hitman hired to kill her.
DOUGHERTY ROW Budget: $1M - $5M | Crime ⋄ Drama When his younger brother turns up dead on the same morning that a local boy is reported missing, a hometown felon turns against a dangerous local crime ring and the slum lord that raised him and forms a shaky alliance with the town's police chief to find the missing boy.
THE PIECES WE HAVE Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Comedy An aspiring but struggling female comic and her obnoxious teenage sister road trip to attend their mother's wedding but must convince their alcoholic brother and meth head father to check into rehab on the way there.
DESIGN Budget: $10M - $30M | Action ⋄ Crime When a crafty young career criminal tips off her two heist-addicted best friends to a cash score that will settle their debt to a legendary mob boss, they mistakenly rip off the city’s most fearsome drug lord, igniting a twisted game of cat and mouse that ends in a showdown with the mob boss, the drug lord, and a vicious contract killer, which is exactly what one of them wanted all along.