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John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Highwaymen. He is also the creator of the Netflix series Marco Polo.
Here's an example: After he dropped out of school, Fusco traveled the American South in search of Delta blues musicians who’d never had a top-10 record but were pioneers and...
Fusco is currently at work adapting the bestselling young reader's novel 'Pax' for SKE, creating a new dramatic series for History, and writing and producing multiple US-China co-productions under his Nomad production banner.
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As a teenager, John Fusco made an unlikely transition from living on the road as a blues musician to getting accepting at NYU Film School. Thanks to his intriguing background, he soon found himself the interest of mentors like Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy, Serpico) and Ring Lardner Jr. (MASH, Cloak and Dagger).
Fusco is currently at work adapting the bestselling young reader's novel 'Pax' for SKE, creating a new dramatic series for History, and writing and producing multiple US-China co-productions under his Nomad production banner.
Growing up there was magical; I made my first movies there (Super 8) when I was 10, filmed in my backyard on Lee Road, an unpaved road back then, surrounded by eastern woodland forest that inspired my lifelong passion for nature, wildlife, and Native American studies (the forest was the hunting and fishing grounds of the Quinnipiac tribe).
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Dec 10, 2014 · Young Guns screenwriter John Fusco describes his journey along the Silk Road with his son, and how it inspired the Netflix and Weinstein Company series, Marco Polo.
