Director/Producer Mick Garris on Angelina Jolie’s UNBROKEN & Working with Steven Spielberg

UNBROKEN executive producer Mick Garris shares the film’s trailer, and his long history working in Hollywood on AMAZING STORIES, THE SHINING television series, BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, and the break he got from Steven Spielberg in this uncensored interview. Garris looks back on how horror and the media have evolved, as well as key advice on screenwriting and breaking into Hollywood in this episode of The Insiders, hosted by Sebastian Twardosz.

Guest Bio

Award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris began writing fiction at the age of twelve. By the time he was in high school, he was writing music and film journalism for various local and national publications, and during college, edited and published his own pop culture magazine.

Steven Spielberg hired Garris as story editor on the AMAZING STORIES series for NBC, where he wrote or co-wrote 10 of the 44 episodes. Since then, he has written or co-authored several feature films (*BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, THE FLY II, HOCUS POCUS, CRITTERS 2, RIDING THE BULLET) and teleplays (AMAZING STORIES, QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY, VIRTUAL OBSESSION, THE OTHERS, DESPERATION, NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES, MASTERS OF HORROR), as well as directing and producing in many media: cable (PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING, TALES FROM THE CRYPT, MASTERS OF HORROR), features (CRITTERS 2, SLEEPWALKERS, RIDING THE BULLET), television films (QUICKSILVER HIGHWAY, VIRTUAL OBSESSION, DESPERATION), series pilots (THE OTHERS, LOST IN OZ), and network miniseries (THE STAND, THE SHINING, STEVE MARTINI’S THE JUDGE).

A LIFE IN THE CINEMA, his first book, is a collection of short stories and a screenplay based on one of the included stories, achieved widespread critical acclaim, and his short fiction has been published in numerous books and magazines. He recently was an Executive Producer on UNBROKEN, a feature film based on the bestselling publishing phenomenon by Laura Hillenbrand, for Universal Pictures, directed by Angelina Jolie.