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Michael Werwie is the award-winning screenwriter and producer of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) and Lost Girls (2020). Both movies world premiered at Sundance and were acquired by Netflix.
- January 1, 1
- Writer, Producer
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Michael Werwie
Jan 8, 2013 · Michael Werwie’s original screenplay “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile” not only won the young screenwriter a 2012 Nicholl fellowship, it also landed on the 2012 Black List, garnering 31 votes, the 7th highest total of any script on the list this year.
Feb 23, 2024 · EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has locked down rights to an untitled adult thriller spec from Michael Werwie (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile), with Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan set to ...
- Matt Grobar
Jan 22, 2019 · Michael Werwie never intended to write a script about Ted Bundy. He was busy writing another screenplay when he decided to procrastinate by picking up a book about the famed American serial killer. Now, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile is set to premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
- Anna Klassen
- When Did You Realize You Wanted to Become A Writer?
- Where Do You Find Inspiration, Or Motivation, For Writing scripts?
- Take Us Through Your Writing Process.
- How About The Rewriting Process?
- Do You Look For Outside Feedback throughout?
- What Is A Typical Day of Writing Like For You?
- How Do You Get Out of A Rut When You Have Nothing on The Page One Day?
I wanted to work in storytelling from a very young age. Before I knew how to spell, I was drawing a lot. My favorite movie as a kid was Jaws. I saw it when I was way too young, and I was just so fascinated by sharks. Then, as I learned to spell and actually write words, I would borrow the neighbor’s typewriter and make the stories look like novels....
In the early days, there were many scripts that I spent way too much time on. There was a particular script that I spent three years on, and people kept telling me I should give up on it and move on to something else. I didn’t. I stuck it out, and this was the script that finally attracted the interest of a manager. The lesson I took away from that...
If it’s based on a true story or some world that I don’t know a lot about, then I will research until I feel proficient enough to enter that world. With Extremely Wicked, I spent three or four months reading and watching and listening to everything I could find and just immersing myself completely. But at a certain point, you have to put that away ...
The true art form, I think, is the rewriting phase. Once I get those first couple of drafts done, then the real work begins. I like to re-outline my scripts after I’ve done a few drafts. The story can change a lot in rewrites. With Extremely Wicked, because the events are the events, and I always knew where I was going to start and end, structurall...
I think feedback is essential. I wait until I get a draft that I feel is functional and doesn’t have any glaring problems that I can’t solve on my own, and then I have several different readers that I’ll cycle different drafts through to get their perspective. I lose all objectivity once I’m working on something for a year or more, and I can start ...
I’m freshest in the morning before I’ve done any emails or phone calls or read the news. I’ll wake up early. Once I make coffee, I try to get to work. If I can get a good several hours in, say, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, I consider that a great day. Sometimes it’s only an hour or less. Especially when I was bartending and I didn’t have the whole day a...
I get stuck all the time. I think it’s part of the process, but I don’t think about it as writer’s block anymore. I find myself prejudging the material before it’s time to do that. That can be paralyzing. That’s typically one of the symptoms. Otherwise, it’s just laziness. A lot of times I just don’t feel like doing it. If I don’t have willpower th...
Jan 11, 2013 · Michael Werwie’s original screenplay “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile” not only won the young screenwriter a 2012 Nicholl fellowship, it also landed on the 2012 Black List, garnering 31 votes, the 7th highest total of any script on the list this year.
Oct 7, 2019 · Screenwriters Guinevere Turner (authoress of this year’s Manson movie, Charlie Says) and Michael Werwie (screenwriter of Netflix’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile) will sit down as...
