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Jake recounts the years before he and Ben Lustig became professional screenwriters, including the challenge of balancing ordinary jobs with the ambition to write big, imaginative movies. An unusual take on the origin of Santa Claus became Winter’s Knight, a Viking-flavored adventure they developed together.
The screenplay sparked a competitive sale in Hollywood in 2014. The project passed through promising stages of development and major changes at the studio without reaching production. The experience gave the partners a career breakthrough and important lessons about collaboration, representation, and resilience in the film industry.
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