SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 450 – Directing A-List Actors with Matt Eskandari
This week Ashley Scott Meyers speaks with Matt Eskandari about how directing several movies with Bruce Willis gave him a track record for working well with A-list actors.
This week our guest Matt Eskandari talks about how directing several movies with Bruce Willis gave him a track record for working well with A-list actors.
Matt Eskandari is the director of Wire Room (2022), Survive the Night (2020) and Trauma Center (2019), which all star Bruce Willis. He gives details about his most recent feature Wire Room, about an FBI agent who is pushed to his limit while monitoring a wire tap. This Action Thriller also stars Kevin Dillon.
Other topics include what Matt Eskandari did to become the kind of director an actor of Bruce Willis' caliber wanted to keep working with.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Matt Eskandari on IMDb
- Matt Eskandari on Instagram
- Wire Room Trailer
- Wire Room on IMDb
- The SYS script analysis service
- Our free guide, "How to Sell Your Screenplay in 5 Weeks!"
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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.
