Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Brown Sugar”
- By
Veronica Wells
Who wrote it?
Michael Elliot, the screenwriter behind the film has a story that is entirely different than Rick Famuyiwa’s. Elliot had a rough beginning being a ward of the state, a high school dropout and homeless. He had no formal education but taught himself how to write for the screen by renting movies from Blockbuster. Eventually, Elliot sold the script to Brown Sugar to 20th Century Fox for $250,000. He went on to write Like Mike and Just Wright. Now Elliot is working on the sequel to Waiting to Exhale, Getting To Happy.
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