Nice Guy Johnny

Nice Guy Johnny is a 2010 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Edward Burns, and starring Matt Bush, Kerry Bish, and Burns.

Burns based the film on his own experiences as an independent filmmaker when offered a choice between following his dreams and working for a major studio. After his previous film, Purple Violets, did not perform as hoped, Burns took the opportunity to reeducate himself on screenwriting. He recalled, I recognized after my film Purple Violets that I had gotten away from respecting traditional storytelling structure. I thought I knew it, but I stopped outlining and stopped thinking about audiences expectations. After that film I thought that I needed to go back and reeducate myself. So I went back and read a ton of books on Hollywood screenwriting and story structure. A lot of it I found very helpful and a lot of it I didnt, but I know going back and having respect for structure helped me enormously as a screenwriter. Knowing that Nice Guy Johnny would be a microbudget film as were his following films, Newlyweds and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, while writing the script Burns concentrated on how he could keep the cost of the film down. With all three of those movies I would write down the list of locations that I knew I could get for free. I knew I would be writing more daytime exterior scenes than nighttime scenes just because of the cost of lighting and how time consuming and difficult shooting at night is with a microbudget. I also knew I would be writing away from any scenes that would require a lot of extras. With those parameters I wrote the scripts. It was a different discipline.The soundtrack is composed by PT Walkley. His song Save The World is featured in the films theatrical trailer. ........

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