Ann Cherkis Age: Mid-30sInfluences: 'The Divorce Trifecta,' 'Ordinary People,' 'Kramer vs Kramer,' and 'Shoot the Moon.'
Ann Cherkis Age: Mid-30s
Influences: 'The Divorce Trifecta,' 'Ordinary People,' 'Kramer vs Kramer,' and 'Shoot the Moon.'

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10 Screenwriters to Watch

Variety takes a look at ten up and coming Hollywood screenwriters.
Posted: 6/18/2008

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<b>Ann Cherkis</b> Age: Mid-30s<br><b>Influences:</b> 'The Divorce Trifecta,' 'Ordinary People,' 'Kramer vs Kramer,' and 'Shoot the Moon.' <b>Shauna Cross</b> Age: 32<br> <b>Influences:</b> 'People who shape-shift and take risks that pay off in huge way.' <b>Nat Fixon & Jim Rash</b> Age: Faxon: 32; Rash: 26<br><b>Influences:</b>'Alexander Payne, because he loves stories about people who make bad decisions in their lives.' <b>Drew Goddard</b> Age: 33<br><b>Influences:</b> 'Los Alamos, where I grew up,' ' an odd mixture of picket-fence suburbia and nuclear weapons that can annihilate the world.' <b>Michael Martin</b> Age: 27<br><b>Influences:</b> Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Fererico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica <b>Dan Mazeau</b> Age: 28<br><b>Influences:</b> 'Steven Spielberg, hands down.' <b>Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber</b> Age: Neustadter: 30; Weber: 31<br><b>Influences:</b> 'We're influenced by 'Anne Hall,' both in what it's saying about relationships and how it's saying it; its structural genius.' <b>J. Michael Straczynski</b> Age: 53<br><b>Influences:</b> Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, Norman Corwin, Harlan Ellison. 'Guys who knew from language...' <b>Joe Penhall</b> Age: 40<br><b>Influences</b> Sam Sheperd:'My hero. He wrote wild plays you can do with three people in a pub, but became a real Hollywood player, too.' <b>Paul Webb</b> Age: 60<br><b>Influences:</b> Melville, Dickens, Mailer, and ' Moby Dick' for 'the daring, the audacity, the power and the poetry of the language.'