Why Kubrick’s ‘2001’ Raised The Bar For ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ & ‘Forrest Gump’ Scribe Eric Roth: Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse

Few living screenwriters boast the credits of Eric Roth, even before he teamed with Martin Scorsese on an adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Besides his Oscar-winning job adapting Forrest Gump, Roth’s work includes Dune, A Star Is Born, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Good Shepherd, Munich, Ali, The Insider, The Horse Whisperer and The Postman. He also adapted the lauded graphic novel Here, reteaming with the Forrest Gump trio of director Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.

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This is an exceptional installment of Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse. Roth was gracious enough to spend the time to describe the craft and collaboration that went into some of the great movies of the past few decades. Those collaborations came alongside filmmakers like Scorsese, Denis Villeneuve, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Michael Mann, David Fincher and Steven Spielberg. Watch here as he shares those experiences and discusses the touchstone films that put him on the path to become the pre-eminent screenwriter of his generation.

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