SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: 425 – From NYU grad to working on Taxi Driver and King Kong (1976)
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker and actor Dan Coplan. Topics include how he went from being an NYU film School grad to working on ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976) and ‘King Kong’ (1976) and how getting hit by a mail truck went towards financing a movie.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker and actor Dan Coplan.
Topics include how he went from being an NYU film School grad to working on Taxi Driver (1976) and King Kong (1976) and how getting hit by a mail truck went towards financing a movie.
Dan Coplan is the actor/writer/director of the crime thriller 8 Winds (2021) which stars Robert Davi.
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Links mentioned in the show:
- Dan Coplan on IMDb
- Dan Coplan on Twitter
- Dan Coplan on Facebook
- 8 Winds Trailer
- 8 Winds on IMDb
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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.