This year alone, there were three Duplass-connected films at the Sundance festival: Mark acted in "Safety Not Guaranteed" and "Your Sister's Sister" and wrote the script for "Black Rock," directed by and starring his wife, Katie Aselton.
The script, by the rock critic Glenn O'Brien, also the film's co-producer, follows the basic day-in-the-life format, beginning with Jean's release from a hospital.
Directed by Stephen Herek from a script by John Stockwell, "Rock Star" is based on the improbable true story, first told in the Arts & Leisure section of The New York Times, of a die-hard fan hired to replace the rock star he idolized.
In his introduction to the published script of Viet Rock, Richard Schechner says, "performance, action, and event are the key terms of our theatre – and these terms are not literary".
Dolman's script doesn't exactly rock, but it's a likable comedy and the leads are a prime pairing.
His last film script was Solo Faces, about rock climbing, a sport he took up himself with some alacrity by way of research.
In October, 1978, the writer was working on a film script for "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" when he received a phone call from a tabloid reporter informing him of the arrest of Sid Vicious, a member of the Sex Pistols, a British band the writer helped to create and manage, for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in New York.
I wrote a 30 Rock spec script.
The script called for The Rock to portray an injury to his arm that required him to wear a plaster cast.
