SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 444 – Making An Anthony Hopkins Movie Remotely With Rick Dugdale

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Director/Producer Rick Dugdale. He talks about his latest movie Zero Contact (2022), a Thriller starring Anthony Hopkins which was shot remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with Director/Producer Rick Dugdale. He talks about his latest movie Zero Contact (2022), a Thriller starring Anthony Hopkins which was shot remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our guest, Rick Dugdale is the Director/Producer of Zero Contact.

Since Rick has produced many indie features, he also talks about how to make a compelling movie on a low budget.

You can also read a transcript of this episode.

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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.