Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch for 2023 Include Scribes for ‘The Marvels,’ ‘Rustin’ and ‘The Color Purple’
variety.comTodd Gilchrist editor In a year in which evaluating the contributions of writers became a major point of contention across the entertainment industry, Variety is especially pleased to announce its list of 10 Screenwriters to Watch.
Some among them are scribes whose work has already made waves — cultural as much as commercial — with others on the precipice of transforming this year’s awards season and the broader landscape of film for years to come.
Though the Writer’s Strike prevented an in-person celebration of their considerable talents, we’re thrilled to present the screenwriting class of 2023, in print and online. “We’re a volume business,” jokes Angelo about her work with Schuker Blum, and despite the pair having just one produced screenplay thus far, she’s not kidding.
Beyond “Dumb Money,” the bicoastal scribes’ colorful, rousing chronicle of the too-odd-to-believe GameStop short squeeze of January 2021, they have written no fewer than six scripts that all figure to hit screens in the coming years.
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