Simon Kinberg

Simon Kinberg

"The hardest part of genre films is making the characters real when their situations are so unreal."

Simon Kinberg recently burst onto the scene with his script for xXx: State of the Union, and has since worked on comic-to-film adaptations for Elektra and Fantastic Four and penned the third film in the X-Men series, X-Men: The Last Stand. Kinberg's breakthrough hit, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, began as a script that he wrote in college and became one of the top grossing movies of 2005. Listen in as he reveals his inspiration - from breakdancing movies to mentor Akiva Goldsman, and what you do and don't learn at film school.

90 Minutes

Letterbox

$8.95
TD-SK7-3
Writer's Tip #97

"I can spend as little as a few days or as much as six month preparing to write a script."

DVD CHAPTERS
  1. Intro
  2. The Most Exquisite Kick in the Balls
  3. Nobody Likes Pitching
  4. I've Ripped the Band-Aid Off
  5. A Certain Level of Badass
  6. The Subtext is Deadly
  7. The Absence of Plot
  8. Rules for Writing a Sex Scene
  9. For Me, It's a Spaceship
  10. The Guys Who Didn't Get the Girls
  11. A Screenplay Geek
  12. Happy Surprises
  13. Writing Is All Habit
  14. Jedi Mind Trick