May 13 – Daddio

Meet ONLINE from 7:00-10:00 PM Pacific Time on May 13th for an in-depth analysis and discussion of the screenplay DADDIO.

LOGLINE: During a cab ride, a passenger and her driver have unexpectedly honest conversations about numerous topics, including their past and present relationships, sex and power dynamics, loss, and vulnerability.

ABOUT THE WRITER: Initially conceived as a play, the spec screenplay for Daddio landed writer/director CHRISTY HALL on the 2017 Black List. The following year, Variety included her on their annual list of 10 Screenwriters to Watch, and she co-developed and co-executive produced the Netflix series I Am Not Okay with This and hit the Black List again with Get Home Safe, a thriller about a woman who must get home by herself on Halloween with a dead cell phone. In 2020, Hall was hired to adapt Stephen King’s novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, for the screen. Other upcoming adaptations the scribe has been attached to include an English-language remake of the 2017 Norwegian thriller Thelma for director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya); a Scarlett Johannson-led Amazon limited series remake of the 1995 Sean Connery thriller Just Cause; the YA novel Hold Back the Stars; The Husband’s Secret starring Blake Lively; and It Ends with Us, also starring Lively and scheduled for release in June, one week before Daddio, which is Hall’s first original screenplay credit and marks her directorial debut.

(registration deadline: Friday, May 10)

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Daddio premiered at last year’s Telluride Film Festival and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. “Every aspect of Daddio is designed to spark conversation,” according to Variety. Shot in sixteen days, the two-hander stars Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades trilogy) and Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and is scheduled to be released on June 28.

Rated R. 112 pages. 101 minutes. Drama.

BRIAN HERSKOWITZ will provide in-depth analysis and lead our discussion. Brian currently holds the title of lead faculty in screenwriting for the prestigious Boston University in Los Angeles – Writer In Hollywood Program, has taught online for UCLA Extension, and spent five years as the sitcom instructor for Writer’s Bootcamp. He has written for such TV shows as Blossom, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Acapulco Heat, Dream On, Renegade, and Murder, She Wrote. and in 2014 he released the book Process to Product: From Concept to Script: A Practical Guide for the Screenwriter. His feature screenwriting credits include the horror/thriller Darkroom and the family comedy Tio Papi. Also a talented actor, producer, and director, Brian made the award-winning short film Odessa or Bust starring Jason Alexander, Red Buttons, and Jason Schwartzman, and the domestic abuse documentary 1736: Somewhere To Turn. Find out more about Brian and his projects at brianherskowitz.com.