I’ve Written 40 Screenplays But I Won’t Actually Start Writing One Until This Happens - Zimran Jacob

Zimran Jacob is an Indian American drama television writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating Cum Laude from Chapman University with a B.A. in Screenwriting and studying at NYU, USC, and UCLA, he moved out to Los Angeles where he began to work in the finance department at Gaumont Television, which released Narcos, Hannibal, Hemlock Grove, and F is for Family during his tenure at the company. Zimran's job at Gaumont led him to Marvel in the writer's room on the Netflix show, The Punisher where he was able to contribute to the story in his role on the support staff as the Showrunner's Assistant. During his time at Marvel, he pitched two stories which became produced episodes. Zimran sold his feature SWAG to 19f Productions where Kevin Pollak is attached to direct. He was a PGA Diversity Workshop Fellow in 2019 and was a Semi-Finalist in both the 2018 and 2019 Austin Film Festival. Most recently, he brought enthusiasm to his job as Showrunner's Assistant for October Faction on Netflix. He writes dark Shakespearean dramas featuring Machiavellian characters, tribal power struggles, and is addicted to crime stories.
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  • @filmcourage
    @filmcourage14 күн бұрын

    Prediction… how many screenplays do you think you will write in your lifetime?

  • @ConsciousConversations

    @ConsciousConversations

    14 күн бұрын

    Realistically, right now, 3. I have 3 solid visual stories that I really love and love to tell:) .. have you done a video on book adaptions?

  • @filmcourage

    @filmcourage

    13 күн бұрын

    Here are a few - kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIV9j7qnesqsYNY.html

  • @WhirledPublishing

    @WhirledPublishing

    13 күн бұрын

    I've written over 30 screenplays - and over a dozen musicals - over 1,000 songs - two operas - dozens of other stage shows - and hundreds of book manuscripts. I've been a prolific writer since age 12 - a musician since age nine - and a researcher since age eight. I've been a dancer since I was a child with dance training through university - which includes dancing professionally in NY in my teens - I've been a choreographer since age 16 - a seamstress and costume designer since age nine - I've designed for dozens of performers - which evolved into designing evening gowns - which evolved into designing couture wedding gowns. Since the age of 15, I've been an architectural designer - because it was my family's business - so I grew up looking at blueprints, inspecting construction sites and touring model homes - my high school offered Drafting Classes so that's how I got into architectural design - after years of training from various relatives - my grandfather did blueprints, my grandmother led the model home tours, two uncles flipped homes, etc. in university, I studied City Planning which prompted me to study the history of architecture which is documented in old records, going back to the "Days of Noah" and Nimrod ... then I designed a city with dozens of villages - each with their own inter-relating design theme - the city includes an opera house, concert hall, dinner theater, ballet company, QiGong Academy, Medical School, ornamental edible gardens, ornamental water features, swan ponds and lily ponds, salons and spas and boutiques, cafes and bakeries, romantic horse-drawn carriages, Arabian horses, Freisian horses and many other wonderful animals, human-powered hovercrafts, hot air balloons, summer camps for children and teens, workshops, seminars and conferences and many other wonderful features. I've been an inventor for over 20 years with several projects that I'm happy with - I've been a hard-core researcher for ten years - after decades of study. I'm a Doctoral Scholar, a Research Scholar and a Biblical Scholar - I do research in dozens of languages including Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Arabic, the Romance languages, the Slavic languages and other Asian languages - I've also studied reports from the Indigenous, Aborigines, the People of the First Nations and the Tribes of Africa. That's what happened because I rarely had a day job and wasn't wasting several hours of my life - every week - commuting to work. I've never been into booze or drugs - I've never been a smoker and I've never been a coffee drinker - so I wasn't wasting time on that which resulted in more free time for my awesome projects. My work schedule averages 15 to 20 hours a day - 7 days a week - so I created over 100 recipes packed with nutrition that are quick and easy to make - so my brain gets the fuel it needs to do all this - and I don't spend a lot of time in the kitchen - and I don't make huge messes in the kitchen so clean-up is super simple - which leaves more time for the work I love which includes my decades of research into the true history of our Earth, the true history of humankind, and the truth about our stars - all of which is documented in thousands of independent sources, written in dozens of languages from all across our Earth. None of my musicals or songs or screenplays or books or inventions or architectural designs have been released to the public - but I have uploaded hundreds of sources of evidence into videos on dozens of topics including the holographic simulation, the overpopulation hoax, the truth about Antarctica, the true timeline, the JFK Assassination Hoax and other mysteries I've pursued.

  • @pnaomiw

    @pnaomiw

    13 күн бұрын

    I used to wait until I was inspired to start a screenplay. Just a few weeks ago, I laid out all my ideas on note cards on a poster board & had 6 stories. I’m developing beats/outline for one. For the 1st time, the possibilities feel endless. And I agree: you are a great interviewer!!

  • @ConsciousConversations
    @ConsciousConversations14 күн бұрын

    I’ve started 40 … but I won’t finish one until a miracle happens:)

  • @filmcourage

    @filmcourage

    14 күн бұрын

    Miracle coming soon!

  • @ConsciousConversations

    @ConsciousConversations

    14 күн бұрын

    @@filmcourage 🌈🌊🥰

  • @matthewmarshall7751

    @matthewmarshall7751

    14 күн бұрын

    Only we can create miracles. Just write a draft. A draft. Doesn’t matter if it’s the best thing, or worse thing ever written lol. Just write a draft. Maybe outline your ending, then make it your goal to write to that point. Stay confident, enjoy your story, and keep writing 😎

  • @ConsciousConversations

    @ConsciousConversations

    13 күн бұрын

    @@matthewmarshall7751😊😊 I’ll come back here and confirm when it’s done 🎉😊

  • @coffeecreateconnect

    @coffeecreateconnect

    13 күн бұрын

    Miracles happen every day. We are all walking miracles. When you think about the chances of us being born at all it's pretty astounding. If you ever want to see a miracle -look in the mirror. Now go start your project. Better to have tried something and failed-than fail by not even trying ✅

  • @NINJED1
    @NINJED114 күн бұрын

    “There are no hard and fast rules to writing.. Whatever makes your heart move.. Whatever serves you thats the way to go.” Well spoken.. I write with a pencil broken.

  • @concernedcitizen7385
    @concernedcitizen738513 күн бұрын

    I keep a handwritten book, with about 40+ story ideas in it so far… Only about 5 of them are really worth developing into scripts.

  • @ecofriend93
    @ecofriend9311 күн бұрын

    Dude sounds very humble. Great interview!

  • @ratemyactors
    @ratemyactors13 күн бұрын

    Intriguing video! As a screenwriter myself, I can relate to the struggles of getting started on a new project. Zimran's honesty about his creative process is refreshing, and I'm curious to see what sparks him to begin writing once he's achieved his goal. Anyone else feel like they're waiting for that elusive spark to get them started?

  • @MrASesay
    @MrASesay12 күн бұрын

    Well done as always. You're such a great interviewer!💪🏿

  • @filmcourage

    @filmcourage

    12 күн бұрын

    Thank you so much 🤗

  • @SendMeAnOriginalWebSeries
    @SendMeAnOriginalWebSeries9 күн бұрын

    Zimran's a super smart dude! Love the wisdom.

  • @RetroNerdGirl
    @RetroNerdGirl12 күн бұрын

    This is so good! I really like Zimran's advice!

  • @MJBrewer
    @MJBrewer13 күн бұрын

    I’ve started several, from webcasts and shorts to novels and screenplays. A couple of them cause complete excitement, and people are getting really frustrated with me for not finishing them. But I’m so provoked to creating some thing absolutely perfect that I can never finish. It’s so frustrating! 😢

  • @BasicallyAnArtist

    @BasicallyAnArtist

    13 күн бұрын

    I’m just some random guy, but I’ve learned that you can have a better chance of doing something great by building from past mistakes. The lightbulb wasn’t made on the first try, but it eventually was finished. Put everything you have into it, learn from the mistakes, use that knowledge to improve the next one. Thats why, as a writer, I’m getting that out of the way now early in my career as someone who’s in his 20s.

  • @tedereTSSK
    @tedereTSSK13 күн бұрын

    Good stuff. Thank you.

  • @filmcourage

    @filmcourage

    13 күн бұрын

    You bet

  • @ItsDayDayTv
    @ItsDayDayTv13 күн бұрын

    This channel is gonna be the reason i finish my first screenplay

  • @filmcourage

    @filmcourage

    13 күн бұрын

    You are doing all the work!

  • @tarekslama6
    @tarekslama614 күн бұрын

    Quantity doesn't matter... Originality and Story structure does..

  • @lindenstromberg6859

    @lindenstromberg6859

    13 күн бұрын

    I disagree. Quantity matters a great deal. Most film scripts should be between 90 and 120 pages (or roughly one page per minute), otherwise they'll be too short or too long... depending on the genre and target audience - epics can be longer, but children's films should be shorter.

  • @DexterMorgan-sd4jx

    @DexterMorgan-sd4jx

    13 күн бұрын

    It depends, I read the screenplay "The reader", it's 82 pages and in the screen is a 2 hours movie The screenplay of "Dunkirk" is 70 pages and in the screen is a 1:45 hours movie

  • @lindenstromberg6859

    @lindenstromberg6859

    12 күн бұрын

    @@DexterMorgan-sd4jx That’s true. It does depend on the dialogue, setting complexity and pacing of the scenes. But the screenwriter is generally going to be aware of those elements, and so the quantity is still going to matter a great deal. If the screenwriter ignores these elements, they might end up with the necessity for more writing or a number of scenes and sequences being cut or heavily edited.

  • @DexterMorgan-sd4jx

    @DexterMorgan-sd4jx

    12 күн бұрын

    @@lindenstromberg6859 it depends on the action lines and how long the shots of the director are going to be, for example I wrote screenplay that has 3 chase scenes, I wrote each one in a very lean way, just 4 lines for each scene, though in the screen those chase scenes can easily be 30 minutes long

  • @Articulateimageries

    @Articulateimageries

    5 күн бұрын

    ​@DexterMorgan-sd4jx I wrote and produced a 10 page script, but in order to tell the story effectively the actual film was stretched to 14 minutes run time. That was the directors final cut. We stuck with it.

  • @ryanhowell4492
    @ryanhowell449214 күн бұрын

    I'm currently working on my second project on writing a screenplay

  • @filmcourage

    @filmcourage

    14 күн бұрын

    First one done! Congrats Ryan!

  • @ethanbrunt7755

    @ethanbrunt7755

    14 күн бұрын

    Prove it

  • @ryanhowell4492

    @ryanhowell4492

    14 күн бұрын

    @@filmcourage took me almost 2 months to come up with a a screenplay for my animation TV Series

  • @ryanhowell4492

    @ryanhowell4492

    14 күн бұрын

    @@ethanbrunt7755 that took me almost 2 months to come up with a screenplay for animation TV Series

  • @Damageonthestack

    @Damageonthestack

    13 күн бұрын

    @@ethanbrunt7755 lol

  • @SugarRushTimes2030-gs3qp
    @SugarRushTimes2030-gs3qp12 күн бұрын

    🔝🔝🔝🔝🔝