Interview with Winning Screenwriter Christopher Stapleton (ALLEGIANCE)

 1. What is your screenplay about?

High-tech mercenaries unwittingly sabotage the National Missile Defense System for a traitorous Air Force general, then stop him from launching a rogue nuclear attack against North Korea.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Action/Adventure

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

“Allegiance” blends timely subject matter and pulse-pounding action in the same vein as the “Mission: Impossible” series and the “Jack Ryan” techno-thriller novels by Tom Clancy.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Relentless Popcorn.

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Goodfellas

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

10 years.

7. How many stories have you written?

My writing partner and I, Barry P. Ambrose, have written around 16 screenplays.

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