Britt-Gibson: Tough men inspire hard-edged scripts

Justin Britt-GibsonJustin Britt-Gibson is enthusiastic about tough men, the cynical, obsessive, hard-living, hair-trigger types based in the fiction from the Jesse Westlake and Mickey Spillane and films like 1971's "In France They Connection" and 1967's "Point Blank," starring Lee Marvin."I live and inhale that world," Britt-Gibson states. "That is what will get me up each morning, showing up in the secrets."The scribe put themself around the Hollywood map -- and also the 2007 Black List -- with "Grown Guy Business," that your takes '70s-style revenge film story and sets it against a gritty urban backdrop much like "Boyz within the Hood" and "Juice," two faves from his youth."My father's still around, you will find there's relationship, but my parents divorced after i was 4," Britt-Gibson states. "I figured, what can happen if my biological father discovered I had been wiped out after i was 18 years of age? I made the decision to complete my undertake the man avenging the dying from the boy he never understood."Britt-Gibson was raised not even close to the 'hood in Silver Springs, Md., together with his mother, Donna Britt, a onetime USA Today film critic and Washington Publish writer presently writing a memoir for Little, Brown and Co. stepfather Kevin Merida, national editor in the Publish and 2 siblings.A movie major at Temple U., he found L.A. in 2002 for any summer time internship at Tom Hanks' Playtone Prods., where he pored over scripts, studying their structure. Coming back after graduation, he labored like a freelance journalist, P.A.'d around the short-resided series "Pay Attention," and authored several moments for that third season of HBO's "Deadwood" included in a authors program held by series creator David Milch.Within the years since, Gibson-Britt, who's signed with Gersh, has scripted the "Lethal Weapon"-esque "Roads burning,Inch in development at Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, and "seventh Boy," a picture novel adaptation for Warner Bros. Younger crowd includes a blind cope with Fox 21, and he's carrying out a rewrite for Vital on "Code Title Sasha." But what he'd like above all else would be to see "Grown Guy Business" finally reach the bigscreen."Even today, it's my baby," he states.TEN SCREENWRITERS To Look At 2011:Josh Applebaum & Andrew Nemec Jay Baruchel & Jesse Chabot Justin Britt-Gibson Neil Mix Andrew Haigh Kurt Johnstad Lauryn Kahn Paula Pell Jon Spaihts John Yorkey Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com