Welcome to Screen to Page. I’m Kevin P. Regan, you’ve probably never heard of me.
So, let’s fix that.
I grew up outside Scranton, PA - yes… like The Office. I was the Director of Television Development and Production for Yellow Brick Road, a production company that had a first look deal with NBC Universal.
After proving myself for years on the development side I was hired by Doug Ellin (Entourage) as a staff writer on his series DAY ONES. If Covid-19 hadn’t killed it, along with 6,945,714 people, you’d definitely have heard of that.
As a former development executive and screenwriter I know what makes a good story. Unfortunately, in Hollywood, many great stories never get told. It’s expensive to make a series or feature film. Despite studios and networks constantly claiming they want “new and original voices” executives are afraid of anything they don’t have data on, so what they green-light tends to rarely be new or original.
IP (Intellectual Property) mean it’s already been done. It has a built in audience. Studios want IP because it’s safer than actually taking risks or having taste. That’s why movies like Battleship exist. It’s easier to spend two-hundred-million dollars on a movie no one wants about a game no one plays because you can tell your boss "Boomers have money, loved this game when they were kids, and their kids love Rihanna.”
If you paid attention during the WGA strike then you know writers in Hollywood are fighting tooth and nail to continue bringing stories to life.
As a friend of mine put it here, however, writers are also fighting just to be able to make a living. When I graduated from film school 11 years ago, this was not the landscape I expected to find myself in.
So I’m going to adapt. Literally.
Our friends in the venture capital world would call this a “pivot,” but seeing as I’m adapting my screenplays into novels, the whole adaption bit is more on brand, you know? And that’s what Screen to Page is all about. Adaptation.
I have a plethora of screenplays collecting dust in my hard-drive. Screenplays that I know are well regarded because they landed me my manager, got me my first staff writing position, meetings with studio and network executives, and landed me jobs developing projects with multiple producers.
So, I am adapting my screenplays into novels and documenting the process here on Substack.
If you’re a fan of books like Book Lovers, Just for the Summer, Funny Story, or Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow I think you’re going to dig the first project I’m putting together.
KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY was the first feature I optioned to a production company. The rights reverted back to me, so now I’m sharing it with the world. This project also pokes a little fun at the entertainment industry as a whole, which is always a bonus.
I want to build a community here with my subscribers. I want your feedback on chapters. I want to hear what you think. Good, bad, and ugly.
You’re the executives now.
By subscribing you’ll get the first look at a soon to be published novel. I’ll also be posting regularly about the process of adapting, the entertainment industry, publishing, and writing in general. I’d love to hear any and all thoughts on what and how to improve.
Hell, you want to tell me I suck? Do it! But, you’re gonna have to pay me… only paid subscribers get to demean me. Shit, this is just a PG OnlyFans, isn’t it… Oh, well.
The goal here is to share some stories that I truly believe people will connect with that they otherwise never would have known existed.
Please join me on this journey.