‘Sing Sing’ Screenwriters on How to Write a Movie About Prison

Story by Lexy Perez

Image from The Hollywood Reporter

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Screenwriters navigate the delicate balance of adapting a true story about a prison theater program while honoring the real-life inmates' experiences.

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Screenwriters Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley invited the real-life incarcerated actors, Divine G and Divine Eye, to collaborate on the script, making it 'alive in a way it never had been before'.
Lead actor Colman Domingo ad-libbed a key line - 'The process is fucked' - that the screenwriters couldn't write themselves, but which 'clarifies the scene' and his character's depth of despair.

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Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, John "Divine G" Whitfield, Clarence Maclin, Colman Domingo, Brent Buell, Paul Raci, Rehabilitation Through the Arts, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Sing Sing, Breaking the Mummy's Code

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