BPS 064: Crash, Boom, Bang! How to Write Action Movies with Michael Lucker

Today on the show we have screenwriter, Michael
Lucker. Michael is a writer, director, and producer with
twenty years of experience creating film, television, animation and
digital media. He began his career writing and directing television
commercials while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting
and film at Boston University’s College of Communication.

Soon after he landed in Los Angeles working in production on series
and specials for ABC, NBC, CBS and HBO before taking a job as
assistant to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment on feature
films Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Arachnophobia, Joe Vs.
The Volcano, Always, Back To The Future II & III and Jurassic
Park.

He went onto serve in creative affairs at Hollywood Pictures where
he worked on such movies as Crimson Tide, Terminal Velocity, Taking
Care of Business and Straight Talk. Michael then embarked on a
career as a screenwriter, helping pen more than twenty feature
screenplays for Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, and Universal,
including Vampire In Brooklyn, Home On The Range, Good Intentions
and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, which was nominated for an
Academy Award in 2002 as best animated feature.

His new book Crash! Boom! Bang! How to Write Action
Movies. 

A fun, insightful insider’s look at the nuts and bolts of writing
action movies, from concept to completion, by a professional
screenwriter and professor of screenwriting. Full of witty
anecdotes from the front lines (and tricks of the trade from
between the lines), Crash! Boom! Bang! promises an enjoyable and
educational read for writers and students of all levels. Although
bullets and bloodshed abound in cinema, the lessons within will
benefit screenwriters of all kinds of movies.

Enjoy my conversation with Michael Lucker.

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