Gustin Nash

Gustin Nash is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2007 film Charlie Bartlett and the 2010 film Youth in Revolt.

Nash began writing the screenplay for Charlie Bartlett when he was 26 years old and working at a mall in Burbank, California. He spent time with a group of teenagers through to thirty-year-olds—the "sub-culture of the mall"—watching films and playing video games, and noticed the discrepancies between the teenagers' behavior and the way they were portrayed in the teen films they saw.^[1][2] He had attended the University of Southern California^[3] to learn screenwriting and had already written nine as-yet unsuccessful spec scripts.^[2] He went to his father, a psychiatrist, and told him that he was unsure of whether he could become a successful screenwriter in the film industry. His father advised him to create a list of everything he hoped to accomplish, and write next to each "You can do it".^[1] That night, he dreamed of a character who remained optimistic and whose mantra was "You can do it"; he says the entire film came to him in one night, and he had completed the Charlie Bartlett screenplay in four weeks after observing his teenage friends further for inspiration.^[1]

Cuando Nash terminó de escribir Charlie Bartlett , leyó por primera vez la novela de CD Payne, Youth in Revolt . Escribió el guion para una adaptación cinematográfica del mismo nombre . Dice que, al escribir el guion, se mantuvo lo más fiel posible a la novela, salvo por un cambio en el final, porque envidiaba la escritura de Payne, diciendo en broma: "Esta era una oportunidad para atribuirme el mérito de haber escrito algo mucho mejor que lo que yo mismo habría creado". ^{[ 1 ]} Dice que prefirió adaptar Youth in Revolt a escribir Charlie Bartlett, ya que tenía material de origen, y a principios de 2008 estaba trabajando en un guion especulativo basado en una serie de novelas gráficas de relatos cortos llamada Rumble, Young Man, Rumble , que también dirigirá. También está trabajando en otra película para adolescentes protagonizada por Vince Vaughn titulada Career Day , que gira en torno a una jornada de orientación profesional en un instituto donde adultos visitan el centro para hablar sobre sus profesiones. ^{[ 1 ]}

• Gustin Nash en IMDb