Write On: 'Blackberry' Writers Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller

Final Draft's Write On Podcast sits down with Blackberry writers
Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller to talk about how they wrote this
epic story of the rise and fall of the world's first portable
email machine. 


Johnson and Miller loosely adapted the script from Jacquie McNish
and Sean Silcoff's book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story
Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of
BlackBerry. The film Blackberry is a bio-pic dramedy that
follows the fictional story of the Blackberry creator Mike
Lazaridis, played by Jay Baruchel and his main investor played by
Glenn Howerton.


“Because we had the book, it was the blueprint for the movie. It
has so many of the facts and details that we extrapolated and
then sort of placed in the script," says Miller.


The production of the movie was a bit like the push to get
Blackberry into the marketplace - there was a lot of hustle.
 “The structure of the movie as it stands came from needing
to reuse the same locations over, and over again,” says
Johnson. 


We sat down to hear about this wild ride from true story to
script to budgetary concerns and on-screen production. Click to
hear more and listen to the podcast.