Embarking on my screenwriting journey as a relatively new writer, my primary goal is to tell compelling stories, whether they unfold on the big screen or through the episodic nature of television.
Inspirations:
Fictional Media:
Movies: Se7en, Saving Private Ryan, Hereditary, Platoon, Gladiator, Happy Gilmore, Anger Management, the Saw series, Zero Dark Thirty, The Imitation Game, 12 Years a Slave, Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame, Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Civil War, The Theory of Everything, The Village, Whiplash, DeVil, Mad Max: Fury Road
TV Series: The X-Files, Daredevil and The Punisher (Marvel series), Smallville, Supernatural (the first five seasons), The Boys, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Wire, Mad Men, Rome, Chernobyl, Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Luther, Line of Duty, Sherlock, That 70's Show, Seinfeld, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Home Improvement, Barry, Succession
Video Games: The Last of Us Part I (and Part II to some extent), Bioshock Infinite, Eternal Darkness: Requiem, the Uncharted series, the Devil May Cry series, the Silent Hill series, and the Resident Evil series (despite some games being lackluster, the overarching narrative remains compelling)
Screenwriters: Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Craig Mazin, Aaron Sorkin, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Andrew Kevin Walker, Martin Scorsese, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Bernard Werber, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire
Other Inspirations: History, photography, art in general, philosophy, music (mostly metal, punk, rock, and alternative), nature, psychology
