Screenwriter Kalogridis one of 10 to Watch says "Los Angeles Times"

Screenwriting alumna Laeta Kalogridis MFA ’94 sold her first script, “an epic about Joan of Arc,” while still a student at UCLA, reports the “Los Angeles Times.” The paper named her one of ten talents to watch in the movie business in a recent Sunday survey article.

When the option for Dennis Lehane’s gothic thriller “Shutter Island” expired at Columbia, producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fischer of Phoenix Pictures picked it up for Kalogridis, with the explicit proviso that she work for almost nothing.

“It’s a very smart way of giving the writer a certain amount of artistic license because you are in essence writing on spec with only the input of the producers,” explains Kalogridis. The payoff came later when [Martin Scorsese] signed on — making Kalogridis the first female writer on a Scorsese movie…

Kalogridis’ relationship with Cameron has been more of a slow burn — the two have been collaborating on Cameron’s scripts for the last eight years, including this Christmas’ “Avatar” and upcoming projects “Battle Angel” and “The Dive.” …

Next up? Kalogridis has spent the last few weeks feverishly polishing the new Tom Cruise- Cameron Diaz spy comedy “Wichita” from director James Mangold.

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