11/15/2023 0 Comments Odds of becoming a screenwriterThere’s a robust history of successful movies adapted from books, both fiction (To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, The Color Purple) as well as nonfiction (All the President’s Men, A Beautiful Mind, Goodfellas). Exeter taught me how to be discerning and interrogate things, how to be a better math student and, thanks to Knowles, how to write. But I’m willing to work with you because I see that you don’t understand how to write.” I learned more in that one year at Exeter than in all my years at Vanderbilt and Columbia. I walked into Knowles’ English class and turned in my first paper and he said, “Look, I’m not even going to give you a grade on this because it’s so bad. At my previous high school, I had been pretty much an A student I wasn’t really challenged. The change-maker was the class I took with Harvard Knowles, who sadly just passed away. I went to Exeter for a postgrad year to play basketball, to have an extra year of high school. The incoming stuff was both good and bad, but it’s valuable to read bad screenplays as much as it is to read good screenplays.Īt Exeter, was there a particular experience that influenced your career path?Ībsolutely. Then I got a job at Miramax, reading screen-plays from the slush pile as well as the scripts of movies that were being made at the time, like Cold Mountain and The Aviator. But I ended up taking a screenwriting course thinking, “This will be an easy A.” It wasn’t an easy A, and I loved it. I read way more books than I saw movies as a kid. We caught up with Crane to hear about the joys of screenwriting, the challenges of bringing nonfiction to the big screen and, yes, that age-old Exeter-Andover rivalry.ĭid you always know you wanted to write screenplays? “It’s about what this coach, with his love of his players and his love for his community, was able to do in trying to restore what they had all lost” in the California wildfires. “This is one of the biggest in-the-face-of-all-odds stories that’s come out in the last couple of years,” Crane says. It will be his first feature-length screenwriting credit.Ī graduate of Vanderbilt University and Columbia University’s film school, Crane is at work on his next passion project, another adaptation, this time of sportswriter Bill Plaschke’s book Paradise Found: A High School Football Team’s Rise From the Ashes. “I knew it was a special story and I wanted to be a part of it.” Come this fall, Crane’s film adaptation of Markos’ book will be released nationwide by Sony Pictures. “By the time I got to the end I was in tears,” he says of devouring Adam Makos’ Korean War bestseller Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice. and the Navy’s first Black aviator, Jesse LeRoy Brown - over an emotional weekend. Screenwriter Jake Crane ’00 first read the dramatic account of two U.S. What would compel an Exonian to write a screenplay about an Andover alum? His heart - and an appreciation for against-all-odds stories.
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