The Future of Hollywood Success Rests in the Hands of the Writers of the Future

The Future of Hollywood Success Rests in the Hands of the Writers of the Future

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- With seven out of the top ten grossing movies of all time being science fiction and fantasy, it's no wonder that Hollywood's future is seen to reside with the writers of science fiction and fantasy, or more specifically the winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Contest according to Dave Wolverton, screenwriter, NYT bestselling author and Writers of the Future Contest judge.

"The mentality is simple in Hollywood: if it makes money, you do it. And if it keeps making money, you keep doing it," says Wolverton from his home in Saint George, UT. "And for reasons that are very simple, science fiction and fantasy have proven time and again to be huge money makers." The top ten grossing movies of all time include from #10 up: Star Wars: Episode I; The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; The Dark Knight; Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; and, Titanic - and seven of these are science fiction and fantasy.

"All of the top-grossing movies of all time have one thing in common," Wolverton says. "They all take the viewer to another time, another place. People crave to be transported out of the mundane world into a place that is new and wondrous, and that is what speculative fiction does best."

Wolverton was the grand prize winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Contest in 1987 and has since gone on to publish over thirty novels, with several becoming NYT bestsellers. Due to his success, he later became a contest judge, a video game designer, and now has branched off into screenwriting. With all this diverse experience now to his credit, Wolverton observed, "L. Ron Hubbard was a very prolific fiction writer during the 30s and 40s, and wrote several works that are classics in their field. He worked as a writer for Columbia Pictures for the highly successful movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island and The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok. And for Warner Bros., he worked with Norvell Page scripting The Spider Returns. So I find it very interesting that he created the Writers of the Future Contest, and that the legacy continues with writers like myself who are providing more material to feed Hollywood's voracious appetite for science fiction and fantasy."

Writers of the Future, now in its 26th year, is the world's largest and most recognized merit competition for writers of speculative fiction. Its over 300 winners have gone on to publish over 500 novels and 3,000 short stories. Writers of the Future Volume 25 can be found wherever books are sold. For more information go to www.writersofthefuture.com.

Source: Writers of the Future

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