When John Schultz was in elementary school, his favorite classroom activity was when the teacher would hand out a vocabulary list of 20 words and he would have to write a story that employed all of them. "I loved that challenge of here's what you have to work with. Make it work," Schultz said.
It shouldn't be all that surprising then that the director is making his third indie feature, but it is refreshing that with this week's "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer," he's aiming to entertain today's elementary school kids by working in the indie world's least prolific genre, the family film. Oddly, in the considerably more ungoverned area of the medium that's wide open to personal coming-of-age stories and cinematic anarchy, few are made with the intention of appealing to all audiences.
Less unusual has been Schultz's career path, though it still might strike some as peculiar.
It shouldn't be all that surprising then that the director is making his third indie feature, but it is refreshing that with this week's "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer," he's aiming to entertain today's elementary school kids by working in the indie world's least prolific genre, the family film. Oddly, in the considerably more ungoverned area of the medium that's wide open to personal coming-of-age stories and cinematic anarchy, few are made with the intention of appealing to all audiences.
Less unusual has been Schultz's career path, though it still might strike some as peculiar.
- 6/10/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
John Schultz, who directed this summer's basketball comedy Like Mike, has come aboard to direct Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Films' Where's Waldo. A late-summer 2003 start date is being planned. The project, based on Martin Handford's illustrated children's book series of the same name, is about a lanky, bespectacled boy in a red-and-white striped hat who travels through various scenes throughout the world and throughout time. The feature film version, adapted for the screen by Adam Rifkin, is described as Back to the Future meets Inspector Gadget. It centers on Waldo, now 30 years old, who is a janitor/inventor who ends up traveling through time after accidentally activating a malfunctioning travel machine. There is also a love story component to the project. Tony Ludwig and Alan Riche are producing Waldo. Schultz and Rifkin are both repped by CAA. Schultz, additionally repped by attorney Jason Sloane, directed Drive Me Crazy and Bandwagon, which he also wrote and produced.
- 10/31/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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