Philip Fracassi spent decades doing everything a working writer is "supposed" to do: churning out screenplays (around 50 of them, some for major studios), bouncing between the film and music industries, even running a bookstore to make ends meet. And still, he kept hitting the same wall that stalls so many screenwriters.
So he tried something different. Instead of continuing to chase assignments, Fracassi turned his attention to doubling down on horror fiction, writing the stories he really wanted to tell. That decision led to a bestselling collection and, eventually, two of his short stories being adapted into feature films, including Skeletons, a Sony thriller starring Brie Larson and Willa Fitzgerald. His story is a reminder that the path to production isn't always the one you'd expect, and sometimes it starts with putting the screenplay down. Read on to see how he did it.
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