Exclusive: MGM has picked up Austin Everett’s sci-fi spec screenplay The Traveler.
Sandino Moya Smith and Adam Rosenberg are overseeing for the studio. We hear the plot largely is being kept under wraps.
Everett is dual Japanese and American citizen who was born in Japan and grew up in Hawaii. His introduction to the world of film was at age 5 in Tokyo, where he was cast in a recurring role for a Nhk drama series. In his teens, he began writing and directing his own short films and fell in love with being behind the camera as a writer-director, not in front.
He directed and wrote the 2017 romance feature Secondhand Hearts, about a photographer who falls in love with an American woman on a trip to Japan, only to learn that she’s his girlfriend’s older sister when he returns to the States.
Everett also directed and wrote the action fantasy short Juventud,...
Sandino Moya Smith and Adam Rosenberg are overseeing for the studio. We hear the plot largely is being kept under wraps.
Everett is dual Japanese and American citizen who was born in Japan and grew up in Hawaii. His introduction to the world of film was at age 5 in Tokyo, where he was cast in a recurring role for a Nhk drama series. In his teens, he began writing and directing his own short films and fell in love with being behind the camera as a writer-director, not in front.
He directed and wrote the 2017 romance feature Secondhand Hearts, about a photographer who falls in love with an American woman on a trip to Japan, only to learn that she’s his girlfriend’s older sister when he returns to the States.
Everett also directed and wrote the action fantasy short Juventud,...
- 10/17/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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