“It’s written very much like a police report,” “BlacKkKlansman” co-screenwriter and co-producer Charlie Wachtel says about the film’s source material — the 2014 memoir by Ron Stallworth about his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan as a black detective in the 1970s. Wachtel continues, “Ron was a cop, so it’s not written in a way that immediately lends itself to being cinematic, so you have to take what is in the book, work with it and build it into this cinematic universe.”
Gold Derby sat down with Wachtel and his creative partner David Rabinowitz (watch the exclusive video above) last month at the 18th Whistler Film Festival, where the pair was honored by Variety as Screenwriters to Watch for 2018. “You look at the people who were on the list in previous years and it’s very impressive,” Rabinowitz says about the recognition, alluding to the likes of Oscar winners...
Gold Derby sat down with Wachtel and his creative partner David Rabinowitz (watch the exclusive video above) last month at the 18th Whistler Film Festival, where the pair was honored by Variety as Screenwriters to Watch for 2018. “You look at the people who were on the list in previous years and it’s very impressive,” Rabinowitz says about the recognition, alluding to the likes of Oscar winners...
- 1/1/2019
- by Riley Chow
- Gold Derby
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