Steven Hale
1 min readDec 23, 2019

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Scott, what’s your take on the fanciful biopic (even more fictionalized than “A Beautiful Mind” or “In Cold Blood”)? I ask because I’m working on one that refers to one or two key events in the protagonists’ lives (3 separate bios, kind of like “The Hours” but less unified) but makes pretty much everything else up. Still, it’s not obviously over the top fantasy like “Adaptation.” I’ve written one of those “inspired by ___” scripts that uses a sort of storyline from reality but not the characters’ real names, and I have no problem with that, but my fanciful biopic would use the protagonists’ real identities and names, if not their actual biographies. My own view is that if the story is compelling and thematically engaging, that’s enough, but my concern is that a gatekeeper might read the script and toss it because of its fantasy-level storyline.

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Steven Hale
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