The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and four-time Oscar nominee goes inside the daunting process of crafting his longtime collaborator’s most personal film in ‘The Fabelmans’: “I went into this thinking, ‘This is his story. This is his family.’”
. When did this become a formal project for the two of you?
I first suggested this to him in 2005, [but] we sort of didn’t know each other — we hadn’t really worked together very much yet. When I said, “You should make a movie about this,” I didn’t think that I would necessarily be involved. I mean, who knew that we were going to [make] four movies together? At some point, probably after [2012’s], it became a little bit more serious.
This is your fourth collaboration, but the first time you wrote a screenplay together. Was the process very different?,] I did a rewrite of [Eric Roth’s] version, and we both got credit for the screenplay, but I didn’t actually work with Eric face to face or anything. With, [I was] entirely on my own. I’d never actually written anything with anybody before.
There are some directors who rely entirely on the screenwriter, who aren’t that interested in language. Steven really is, and we would never have been able to work well together if he hadn’t liked my writing. We’d already established that we had shared affinities and sensibilities in terms of the screenplay. I’ve always felt that part of my job as a collaborator is to fight for whatever I think is the right way to go on any moment, and then he has to push back.
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