Ron Aberdeen
West Midlands
Ron Aberdeen
Before his writing career Ron was a CEO for an International company and a marketing executive for the Sony Corporation. His business experience and travels are brought together in scripts that reflect his conceptional marketing skills to create fast moving, exciting and entertaining stories.
In his four years as a writer he has been commissioned by the director David DeCoteau, producers Simon Foster, Bill Dever and André Paquette and hired as a story editor for prize winning director Andy Lauer.
Two of his screenplays have won awards and he has lectured on script writing in the US at the B-Movie Celebrations.
Ron is represented by the Literary Agent who was responsible for identifying Blockbusters scripts & projects such as Top Gun, Pretty Woman, Lethal Weapon, Basic Instinct and The Rock.
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Comment on: Where have all the screenwriters gone?
As a distinguished expert on the craft of scriptwriting who has published books on the subject, even acted as a development consultant, been involved in training, as well as being a director of a production company, perhaps you are in a better position to answer the question rather than ask it. Richard Curtis and Simon Beaufoy were not exactly new boys on the block although I don’t think anyone can say their work was not original or refreshing. Personally I think, like any good plot, you should follow the money to get to the bottom of the problem and with the advent of Lottery Funding, which in a way is most welcome, has I believe a huge downside, in that it has turned the British Film Industry into a charity case. There does seem to be a tendency in the UK to reward the inane and ridicule the genius but that is probably because the first is so common and the latter so rare. As a new scriptwriter on the block I have found more interest in my work in the US, Canada, Australia, Spain and even Malaysia than initially in the UK and even when my American representative managed to get one of my favourite screenplays to a top British director, the comment I received back was the screenplay was too British. Strangely enough I now have a successful award winning Australian producer interested in a very British project. In my opinion the missing band of screenwriters are still dotted around the British cities and countryside, they have just got fed up with being treated as a charity case and through the global portal of the Internet prefer to play away from home. What is missing are the entrepreneurs, the adventurous producers and distributors with vision who can match the wealth of originality that does exist with a courage equal to the challenge.
