SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 446 – James C. Bressack On Making ‘Hot Seat’ With Mel Gibson
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Director James Cullen Bressack, a prolific movie director of over eight Action films and has worked with Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal and DMX. They talk about his latest directing project, ‘Hot Seat’ which stars Mel Gibson, Kevin Dillon and Shannen Doherty.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Director James Cullen Bressack. Our guest is a prolific movie director of over eight Action films and has worked with Bruce Willis, Steven Seagal and DMX. They talk about his latest directing project, Hot Seat (2022) which stars Mel Gibson, Kevin Dillon and Shannen Doherty.
James Cullen Bressack tells us things he looks for when he considers directing a script written by other writers. These are important insights from a career director.
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Links mentioned in the show:
- James Cullen Bressack on IMDb
- James Cullen Bressack on Twitter
- James Cullen Bressack on Instagram
- Hot Seat Trailer
- Hot Seat 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.