SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 502 – Adapting a Novel for the Screen with Charles Guard and Thomas Guard

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmakers and brothers Charles Guard and Thomas Guard about writing and directing ‘Dead Shot’ (2023) and how they adapted the script from the book ‘The Road to Balcombe Street’ by Steven P. Moysey.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmakers Charles Guard and Thomas Guard. These brothers talk about being the Writers/Directors of the Action/Thriller Dead Shot (2023).

Topics also include how they adapted the script for Dead Shot from a book The Road to Balcombe Street by Steven P. Moysey.

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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.