Petition asks Michelle Krusiec to read prison screenplay

More than 2000 women sign petition demanding a firm commitment from  Michelle Krusiec (film producer) to read screenplay addressing Texas judicial system

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– Actress, Producer, Director – Hollywood (2020), Hawaii Five-0 (2010), The Invitation (2015), Saving Face (2004) – The Gersh Agency, Sean Barclay – Thruline Entertainment, Christina Diamantas

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Michelle Krusiec & Adam Sandler’s film company targeted by Texas petition

Will Hollywood just rollover and let prisoner’s suffer?

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More than 2000 women have signed an open letter to Adam Sandler calling on Michelle Krusiec and Hollywood to take “movie action” to tackle injustice against men and women in the wake of revelations that Texas has more prisoners incarcerated than the Soviet Union’s gulag system had. Texas currently has over 290,000 inmates housed at 580 facilities.

The signatories, including state senators, professors of criminal justice, social workers, family, and inmates, call for a “firm commitment” to tackle the unjust prisons in Texas. The petition has also been signed by Beto O’Rourke, and Matthew McConaughey. These two signatories might face each other in the 2022 Texas governors election. Both have expressed interest in the job.  The petitions arrived for Michelle Krusiec at The Gersh Agency, Sean Barclay last week.

In the open letter to Michelle Krusiec, the 2080 women write that they are “heartbroken for first-time drug offenders many times addicts who have received extremely harsh sentences in Texas when rehabilitation has proven a cheaper and more effective solution.”  The petition goes on to say their family and friends are often heartbroken for and looking for redemption and rehabilitation for the victimless drug crimes.”

The signatories, including attorneys, professors, politicians, family members, and inmates, call on Michelle Krusiec for a ‘firm film commitment’ to tackle the issue of operating the Texas prison system for profit.

The petition came to light when women discovered the screenplay, a copy which was dontated to all 580 of the state’s prison and jail libraries. The existence of the petition surfaced on International Women’s Day. Women in Texas face extreme prejudice in Texas and often receive extremely harsh penalties for even a small amount of drugs, including marijuana. Marijuana is legal now in 21 states.

Inside prisons, the women are faced with such horrendous conditions… the petition demands that “filmmakers begin to take the issue seriously.”  Also, the petition reminds that “even here in the USA in the 21st century citizens are not safe from government oppression.”

Actress, Producer, Director, Michelle Krusiec, has not responded to the petition. Nor has The Gersh Agency, Sean Barclay responded with a comment.

Alan Nafzger/caption]

The screenplay “Dumbass” was penned by writer and retired professor of political science Alan Nafzger.

The premise of the story is that, “Adam Sandler writes letters and saves numerous women from the monotony of prison life, and later when he gets into trouble with a drug cartel they return the favor by rescuing him.”

The film would be set in contemporary, Gatesville Texas. There are four women’s prisons located in Gatesville. And of course, Texas is famous for putting everyone in prison for a long sentences for little or no reason. The number of women in Texas prisons has tripled in the last ten years, as mass incarcerations have proven profitable to not only the state but also profitable for an array of business interests.

Writer Alan Nafzger has called on Governor Greg Abbott to, “end the prison industry.”

Recently, “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak spoke out against the Texas system and put a good word in for mercy and forgiveness out on social media. “How nice for those who have lived such exemplary lives that they can express glee when others have their lives ruined by a mistake, real or perceived,” Sajak tweeted last month.

During the winter’s deep freeze, the The Marshall Project, exposed the horrible prison conditions, “Inside Frigid Texas Prisons: Broken Toilets, Disgusting Food, Few Blankets.”

The petition states, “Why don’t we have the ‘Adam Sandler’ character… sending letters to women in prison and being their friend and trying to help them adjust, giving them hope… and when they get out of prison he picks them up so they don’t have to ride the smelly bus back home… but his pickup truck is a junker, smoking and sputtering … worse than the bus. But his heart is in the right place… He’s the last “chivalrous” man on earth.”

Michelle Krusiec has not commented on the script, thus far. A statement is expected soon.

Professor Nafzger has made a short treatment of the project available online.

He has made the finished script available at for select filmmakers.

Adam Sandler of Happy Madison Productions has expressed interest in the screenplay.

Michelle Krusiec is a Actress, Producer, Director known for Hollywood (2020), Hawaii Five-0 (2010), The Invitation (2015), Saving Face (2004) and is represented by The Gersh Agency, Sean Barclay.

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BIG STUNTS

-Alien Worlds are like the period piece where everything has to be changed. See notes and Low-Budget Recommendation listed above. Exception: Monster flicks where the producer can put an actor in a suit. That’s cheap compared to special effects.

ALIEN WORLDS

-Low-Budget Recommendation: The only way I can see for this type of script to get made for a $1million or under is if it’s one location with a minimal cast. Even then it’ll be tough! Try to avoid the period piece if you want to write for the low-budget arena.

This step might come in the first act (it’s sometimes the Sequence One Climax), or somewhat later in the second act, but it’s generally the end or beginning of a sequence: think of Alien (the landing on the planet to investigate the alien ship), flying down to Colombia in Romancing the Stone, flying to Rio in Notorious, stopping the car for the night at the Bates Motel in Psycho. It’s often the beginning of an actual, physical journey in an action movie; in a ghost story it is entering the haunted house (or haunted anything). It’s a huge moment and deserves special weight.

Once the hero/ine has a plan, then, either literally or metaphorically, they set off on a journey to get that desire. Every story is in some way a journey. So the beginning of the second act of a book or film (30 minutes or 30 script pages into a film, 100 or so pages into a book) — can often be summed up as INTO THE SPECIAL WORLD or CROSSING THE THRESHOLD. Dorothy opening the door of her black and white house and stepping into Technicolor Oz is one of the most famous and graphic filmic examples of this story element (although it comes in Act I). Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole is a famous literary example. The passageway to the special world might be particularly unique… like the wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; that between-the-numbers subway platform in the Harry Potter series; Alice again, going Through the Looking Glass; the cyclone in The Wizard of Oz; the blue pill (or was it the red pill?) in The Matrix; the tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time; the wind (and umbrella) Mary Poppins uses to travel with (and indeed, you can just study the Mary Poppins books for great examples of passageways between worlds).

CROSSING THE THRESHOLD/INTO THE SPECIAL WORLD

First, as we’ve just discussed at length, either in the first act or very early in the second act the hero/ine must formulate and state the PLAN. We know the hero/ine’s DESIRE or GOAL by now (or if we don’t, we need to hear it, specifically). We need to know how the hero/ine intends to go about getting that desire. It needs to be spelled out in no uncertain terms. “Dorothy plans to go to the Emerald City to ask the mysterious Wizard of Oz for help getting home.” “Clarice plans to bargain with Lecter to get him to tell her Buffalo Bill’s identity before Bill kills again.”