Britt-Gibson: Tough males inspire hard-edged scripts

Justin Britt-GibsonJustin Britt-Gibson is passionate about tough males, the cynical, obsessive, hard-living, hair-trigger types located in the fiction in the Jesse Westlake and Mickey Spillane and flicks like 1971's "French Connection" and 1967's "Point Blank," starring Lee Marvin."I live and inhale that world," Britt-Gibson states. "That's what's going to get me up every morning, turning up within the secrets."The scribe put themselves round the Hollywood map -- as well as the 2007 Black List -- with "Grown Guy Business," that the takes '70s-style revenge film story and sets it against a gritty urban backdrop similar to "Boyz inside the Hood" and "Juice," two faves from his youth."My father's still around, there exists a relationship, but my parents divorced once i was 4," Britt-Gibson states. "I believed, so what can happen if my biological father discovered I used to be destroyed once i was 18 years old? I made a decision to accomplish my undertake the guy avenging the dying in the boy he never understood."Britt-Gibson was elevated definately not the 'hood in Silver Springs, Md., along with his mother, Donna Britt, a onetime USA Today film critic and Washington Publish author presently writing a memoir for Little, Brown and Co. stepfather Kevin Merida, national editor within the Publish and a pair of brothers and sisters.A film major at Temple U., he found L.A. in 2002 for just about any summer season internship at Tom Hanks' Playtone Prods., where he pored over scripts, studying their structure. Returning after graduation, he labored just like a freelance journalist, P.A.'d round the short-were living series "Give Consideration," and written several moments for your third season of HBO's "Deadwood" incorporated inside a authors program held by series creator David Milch.Inside the years since, Gibson-Britt, who's signed with Gersh, has scripted the "Lethal Weapon"-esque "Streets burning,Inch in development at Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, and "seventh Boy," an image novel adaptation for Warner Bros. More youthful crowd features a blind deal with Fox 21, and he's undertaking a rewrite for Vital on "Code Title Sasha." But what he'd like most importantly else is always to see "Grown Guy Business" finally achieve the bigscreen."To this day, it's my baby," according to him.10 SCREENWRITERS To Check Out 2011:Josh Applebaum & Andrew Nemec Jay Baruchel & Jesse Chabot Justin Britt-Gibson Neil Mix Andrew Haigh Kurt Johnstad Lauryn Kahn Paula Pell Jon Spaihts John Yorkey Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com