Quarantined viewers tuned into Saturday’s all-day, virtual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Summit were treated to a special surprise in the evening when filmmaker and TV titan J.J.
Abrams crashed the party as the surprise special guest.
He arrived just after his fellow “Star Wars” scribe Tony Gilroy (“Rogue One” and the upcoming Cassian Andor series) finished his conversation about the craft of screenwriting.Abrams’ Q&a touched on a range of topics, from the origins of 2015’s “The Force Awakens” to scaling “the mountain,” as he called it, of writing a screenplay, and to the Golden Age of television happening now.
It’s an era Abrams helped to launch with his ABC mystery series “Lost.” “I know my role in that.
I’m not talking as if I had nothing to do with this,” he said.More from IndieWireJeffrey Katzenberg Is Courting J.J.
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