The actor-turned-director had already had the backing from production collective Act 4 Artists to make his feature film directorial debut, but he needed to find the right script.
“I tried to apply for a Black List account, but I was denied because I never made a movie,” Ropp tells me. “So I took [a friend’s] log-in and read about 100 Black List scripts.”
What he found was “Brian,” a John Hughes-like coming-of age comedy about a high schooler with anxiety issues who develops a crush on one of his teachers. It was written by “Late Night With Seth Meyers” writer Michael Scollins. “Then came the challenging part of cold calling Mike Scollins and convincing him to let a dude he’s never met and who’s never made a movie have control of his script,…
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