11 - Richard LaGravenese - a podcast by Ken Davenport

Richard LaGravenese is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King.

There have been a ton of Broadway musical to movie adaptations over the years . . . from Chicago to Hairspray to Rent to Into the Woods. But there have been hardly any Off Broadway musical to movie adaptations. And then all of a sudden, here comes a film version of The Last 5 Years starring A-lister Anna Kendrick and soon-to-be-an-A-lister Jeremy Jordan. How did this movie happen? Two words. Richard LaGravenese.
So what drew him to The Last 5 Years?  And what does he think about our industry?
Listen to his podcast to hear:

The difference between writing plays and writing screenplays.

Why the business model of Broadway is much more attractive to writers than the business model of Hollywood.

Why there are a lot of writer/directors in Hollywood but not so much here.

And whether or not he’s got more musicals he wants to make into movies.


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