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124 | Elvis Screenwriter Jeremy Doner on Writing Biopics (and Avoiding Common Pitfalls)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Did You Get Into the Elvis Project?

"I ended up having to write in like a week, you know, instead of a whole semester or whatever it was. So yeah, I got myself into some hot water early lessons," he said. "Buzz Lerman had the intention of making an Elvis movie and there was sort of an intention to do a modern Amadeus as the structure."

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