"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" (one of my favorite movies and plays), "Heartbreak Kid," "The Graduate," "Mikey and Nicky," "Heaven Can Wait".and, yes, "Ishtar." Most of all, I like the album sketch stuff they did together. I love everything they did together and most of what they've done apart. SU: I'm still a big Mike Nichols and Elaine May fan. NM: Is there a writer or movie that inspires you above others? They look good in suits, and they like to keep busy. These are the same guys that leveraged up their banks at minimum thirty times market cap, right? So the idea of murdering capitalists wasn't a huge leap. SU: I loved Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," as well as the movie "Murder By Death." Getting people together for a murder seemed like a great idea to a bedwetter growing up in Minnesota.Ĭut to the collapse of Lehman Brothers! I was a huge fan of the weekends Treasury Secretary Paulson and the banking chiefs went into a room to stabilize the banking system. NM: Where did the idea for "Coffee, Kill Boss" come from? My first screenplay was the same as everybody's - it's about me and my friends! Mine was set in Chicago, which only carries the story so far. And then came plays and screenplays, which are essentially really-really long sketches. It's the best way to learn how to move a scene.) Eventually, I started writing sketches for a group. (All writers should spend some time on the stage improvising. SU: Before screenwriting, I was performing improv in Chicago. NM: So Sig, what attracted you to screenwriting when you were starting out? What was the first script you wrote? As always-thanks so much for reading and for making this blog a bigger deal than I ever planned. When the production-dust settled, I got around to another fun task-interviewing Sig for ! I’ve posted the exchange below, and encourage readers to add comments and discover Sig’s webseries “Space Hospital” on YouTube.Ĭoffee, Kill Boss will premiere at film festivals in late 2013/early 2014, and be available to the public soon after. We finally did it, you can read all about it at hashtag #CKB on Twitter. Sig Ueland and I went to UCLA together a few years back, met in a screenwriting class and planned to one day make this film. We had a fantastic cast, and at least once every couple of hours someone would be sure to proclaim, “wow-what a great script.” And it was! One of the coolest parts of directing is getting to make projects written by your talented writer friends-and that’s exactly what happened with Coffee. Last month, I had the opportunity of directing my first feature film, Coffee, Kill Boss. Screenwriting is fun-but 18-hour days on 106-degree sets? Now THAT’S a party. When I started ScriptFaze four years ago, I didn’t predict how much directing I’d be doing in the years to follow.
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