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Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.
Oct 12, 2017 · His standout work, the 2013 film The F Word, was the first time Mastai worked on a screenplay entirely of his own vision without commercial considerations. The result was a uniquely down-to-earth romantic comedy with witty dialogue and playful chemistry.
Mar 14, 2017 · 'You'll Only Change When the Status Quo is Ripped Away From You': An Interview with Elan Mastai By David Berry Talking with the author of All Our Wrong Todays about the unintended consequences of innovation, the seductive powers of nihilism, and writing movie scripts about skateboarding chimpanzees.
Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word , for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.
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"There were three main sources of inspiration for this book, spread out over decades. The first comes from my grandfather, who was a chemist. He really believed in his core that science was the answer to all the problems of the future. He also had an extensive collection of 1950s and 1960s sci-fi novels. I loved staring at these garish paintings of...
"I had the idea for a little while before I put pen to paper. I thought, well, is this a movie? One day I'm walking my dog, and I'm thinking if only this could be in the first person, but it can't be first person because you can't do that in a movie without a ton of voice-over. And then I thought, wait, this could be a novel. Right at that moment, ...
"The book is structured into really short chapters. When I wrote this book, I didn't have a publishing deal or a literary agent. So I fit the writing around my other work. I made a deal with myself, which was that I would write 250–500 words a day, but every single day. And initially, the short chapters were because each chapter represented one of ...
When screenwriter Elan Mastai first imagined a tale with time travel and alternate realities, he knew it needed to be written as a novel. The book, titled All Our Wrong Todays, earned him a...
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Feb 17, 2017 · Mastai Elan’s All Our Wrong Todays is a reflection of the present world that gives us a clue as to what the future should look like. David Leyes. Share.
