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Anthony L Mariani

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Screenwriter, Director, Published Playwright, Former Hollywood 1st AD. Mentor: Alexander Mackendrick. 🎥🎬 https://m.imdb.com/name/nm7947744/

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Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet Jesus, an army of
Dewey Oxbergers invading Chicago. Looks like the Texas National Guard’s recruiting office is in a Walmart.

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“So what else is on your mind besides hundred-proof women, 'n' ninety-proof whiskey, 'n' fourteen-carat gold?

“Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph!”

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 1d

On the hunt!

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I’m the guy who plants flowers at the entrance to our neighborhood… I’m also the guy who walks a half a block to water them each morning.

It’s the little things that make the world a better place. 🌸

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The Sterile Cuckoo
1969

Director - Alan J. Pakula

Liza Minnelli’s performance. 👏

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 2d

Stay focused and keep grinding. That’s all you can do.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a project that would be an especially great theatrical experience. With the amount of thrills and action sequences, it is a project that, with enough buzz around it, should be able to attract wide attention, this would be a great vehicle for a top actor to take part in.”

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 2d

SEALED WITH BLOOD - “The amount of mystery and dread woven into this picture takes a great amount of skill, and the writer consistently displays a
strong ability within the scriptwriting medium.”
- The Black List #spec #horror #action #adventure #film #screenplay #ScriptSky

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 3d

Someone likes the cool weather.

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Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 5d

I agree, wrote it with that intention. A summer release.

The Black List - “This is a project that would be an especially great theatrical experience.”

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 5d

For October 💀
Sealed With Blood 🩸
#action #horror #spec #ScriptSky
- Amid the chaos of The Battle of New Orleans, a squad of British soldiers finds themselves lost in the treacherous swamps, where they confront an unimaginable horror that surpasses the terrors of war itself.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 6d

I see you. 🐢

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 6d

Avanti! - 1972

Such an underrated
Billy Widler film.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 6d

Throwback Thursday

My first real lesson about Hollywood. Feature film
The Real Thing - 1996.

Our night on-set security guard was Gary Coleman. Needless to say he was very bitter. It was my first interaction with fleeting fame.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow on TCM
OVER THE EDGE - 1979

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Birthday, sculptor John Somerville. 🎂
I’ve had some fantastic conversations with him. Friends with Terry Gilliam, he helped make the props for Time Bandits, Including the helmet for Sean Connery.
One cool cat.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 8d

I only met Brent a few times, he had such a passion for storytelling. A new HBO Documentary on his life. Brent was killed on March 13, 2022, by Russian soldiers while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Irpin, a city near Kyiv.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 10d

"Perception is reality until proven otherwise.”

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 11d

Rewatched
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
By John Sturges.

Hindsight, this is a reverse
The Dirty Dozen, with Michael Caine leading the mission. A squad of condemned German parachutes land in England to kidnap or kill the British Prime Minister.

Anthony L Mariani @anthonylmariani.bsky.social · 12d

MUSTANG ‘73
In a sun-scorched desert of America, a haunted ex-racer risks everything to reclaim his stolen 1973 Ford Mustang March 1, in a high-octane chase that forces him to choose between vengeance and redemption. #Scriptsky
#FirstPageFriday

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