SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 476 – From the ‘Cheers’ TV Set to Filmmaker with Mark Burman
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Filmmaker Mark Burman about how Mark got his start as a Production Assistant on the set of the TV show ‘Cheers’ and if writers should worry about writing period pieces and scripts with other high-budget elements.
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Filmmaker Mark Burman.
They talk about how Mark Burman got his start as a Production Assistant on the set of the TV show Cheers.
From there he went on to be a movie producer and filmmaker.
Mark Burman tells us about Ambush (2023), a War/Action movie he is the writer/director of which stars Aaron Eckhart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Connor Paolo.
Topics also include if writers should worry about writing period pieces and scripts with other high-budget elements.
You can listen to the audio portion of the podcast by clicking here or through iTunes by clicking here.
You can also read a transcript of this episode. Links mentioned in the show:
- Mark Burman on IMDb
- Mark Burman on Instagram
- Mark Burman website
- Ambush Trailer
- Ambush on IMDb
- 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.
