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Exclusive Interview: Writer Chris Galletta on Sundance 2013 Film 'Toy's House'

01.30.13 @ 9:00AM Tags : chrisgalletta, interview, jordanvogtroberts, screenplay, screenwriting, sundance, sundance2013interviews, toyshouse

For those of us who can remember life before we were plugged into technology, we may remember a time when we had nothing better to do but disappear into a forest with our buddies and wreak havoc out of the eyesight and earshot of the grown-up world. Those days, however, have come to pass. Now that Sundance 2013 has also come to pass, so too shall our series of interviews with screenwriters of feature films from this year’s U.S. Dramatic Competition. For our final interview, we present our conversation with Toy’s House screenwriter Chris Galletta, who describes the influence of Amblin Entertainment movies on his first produced feature-length screenplay, the waiting game to find the right director for the project, and the decision to stop trying to write like the next Charlie Kaufman and start writing what he knows. More »