Daniel Robert Epstein: The Lookout director Scott Frank

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN: The Lookout director Scott Frank

Scott Frank has been writing television and films before he decided to take on the directing reins. His experience working with Steven Soderbergh and Steven Spielberg on Out of Sight and Minority Report respectively surely was a part of what convinced him to direct The Lookout, an idea that has been percolating with Frank for a very long time. It is the story of Chris Pratt [played brilliantly by Joseph Gordon-Levitt], a promising young hockey player in high school who’s career is cut short by a car accident which kills his best friends and...

I will be first in line to see this film. Scott Frank is a fantastic writer - Minority Report is underrated genius-level filmmaking all around in my opinion, and it's probably Cruise's best work, too - and Frank has the mentors to, in theory, make a relatively smooth transition to the director's chair, so I will watch this film with great interest.

Also, DRE (and SG): I appreciate the fact that the technical information in the article was not just accurate, but included in the first place. As SG reaches a wider audience, the need for the creative content to speak to it's reader's varying - and occasionally high - levels of experience / awareness / aspirations in various fields will grow. Interviews like many we've seen recently are a great step in that direction, so thanks to all concerned.