SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep 512 – Adapting H.P. Lovecraft, ‘Suitable Flesh,’ ‘Re-Animator’ with Dennis Paoli
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with screenwriter Dennis Paoli about how he got his start by writing scripts for the legendary Horror Director Stuart Gordon, his most recent film ‘Suitable Flesh,’ and how it sometimes takes 25 years for a script to get produced, an inspiring story reminding writers not to give up on their stories.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with screenwriter Dennis Paoli.
They talk about how Dennis Paoli got his start by writing scripts for the legendary Horror Director Stuart Gordon. Many of these scripts are adaptations from the novelist H.P. Lovecraft including Re-Animator (1985). His most recent credit is Suitable Flesh (2023) starring Heather Graham, Barbara Crampton and Judah Lewis which was directed by the well-known filmmaker Joe Lynch.
Dennis Paoli talks about that work and how it sometimes takes 25 years for a script to get produced, an inspiring story reminding writers not to give up on their stories.
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You can also read a transcript of this episode.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Dennis Paoli on IMDb
- Suitable Flesh Trailer
- Suitable Flesh on IMDb
- Suitable Flesh website
- SYS Select - Includes the SYS Select Screenplay Database, our monthly newsletter to producers, and paid screenwriting leads.
- 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.
