Roger Avary is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer. Best known for co-writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, he shared the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Avary made his feature-directing debut with the 1994 crime thriller Killing Zoe. He later directed Mr. Stitch, adapted Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction, and returned to the crime genre with Lucky Day. His screenwriting credits also include the horror hit Silent Hill and Robert Zemeckis’s animated epic Beowulf. Additionally, he is the founder of Pulp Time, a social movie platform for always-on programming and interactive public and private watch parties. Currently, Avary is set to write and direct a feature adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost with Ex Machina Studios, set to release in 2027.
Projects:
Beowulf
Pulp Fiction
Video Archives Podcast
0:00:00 — Roger Avary
0:00:25 — Beowulf, Excalibur & Neil Gaiman
0:08:07 — Selling the Script to Zemeckis
0:14:20 — The Accident
0:18:03 — Incarceration & Who He Became
0:26:01 — The Writing Tunnel
0:37:56 — Prison Life & Spiritual Awakening
0:55:10 — The Chosen, Forgiveness & Jesus as Punk Rock
1:04:26 — Media, Violence & the State of the World
1:19:48 — Formative Films & What Makes a Movie Great
1:54:03 — Dialogue, Truth & Visualizing Reality
