Originally a friend put me on to the idea, and then I started doing a little bit of digging around. In terms of OPERATION FINALE, am I right in thinking that was a spec script? Those kind of calls are always worth staying up for. Yesterday I got to have a long call with our wonderful director, Chris Weitz, and an anesthesiologist about anaesthetics that were used in the 1960s. So that’s where the lack of sleep comes in.īut there are fun parts of it too. This is the other thing as well, working with America they’re obviously eight hours behind, so people will sometimes ask, “Can you do a call at 1 PM?” and I just don’t think about the fact that that’s at 9. Sometimes it really feels like you’re doing that. You don’t want to spend more time writing emails than scripts.Įxactly. So I try to turn my phone off all day, unless it’s a window of time when I’m replying to emails and doing calls, just to make sure there’s enough time to focus on the creative things, because ultimately that’s what’s important. I try to be disciplined with getting up really early and finding a cut-off point in the day that allows me to switch over to something else, so I can work five or six hours on one project, take a pause, go and have lunch, and spend the same amount of time on another one.Ī lot of the management of this stuff is quite admin-y, so it’s also about not letting the admin side of it overwhelm the creative side.

So how do you juggle multiple projects? How do you manage? And I’m also working on a political thriller with a wonderful director. It’s the first time I’ve been through this process and it’s exciting. The Eichmann movie starts shooting in the Autumn. You’ve been very busy recently with a number of projects, including OPERATION FINALE, can you tell us a bit about what are you working on now? This Q & A was compered by producer Pete Smyth. His current projects also include a film based on the Battle of Britain for Ridley Scott to direct. Matt Orton’s script OPERATION FINALE, about the team who captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, is soon to go into production at MGM with Oscar Isaac starring and producing and Sir Ben Kingsley starring. If you would like to check out future speakers and join an Insider Interviews Live evening, you can see more details here.Īfter winning the BBC Writersroom Young Writers’ Competition in 2012, Matt Orton’s spec screenplay CLEAN featured on the Brit List and was optioned by Michael Kuhn’s Qwerty Films.

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