Edward Savio
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| Born | Edward Savio June 3, 1963 Berlin, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, Novelist |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Howard University |
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| Notable works | Idiots in the Machine, Alexander X, Ancient Among Us |
| Children | 2 |
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| edwardsavio | |
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Edward Savio (born June 3, 1963) is an American screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for the bestselling sci-fi/fantasy series, Battle For Forever (Alexander X, Ancient Among Us, and the upcoming League of Auld), and for his debut novel, Idiots in the Machine. He has sold film projects to Disney and Sony Pictures and has written the non-fiction Cloning Yourself For Fun & Profit. He is the creator of the political cartoon Ourmageddon.
Early life[edit]
Savio was born in Berlin, Connecticut, and grew up studying movies and writing scripts very early on:
I started writing plays and scripts in sixth grade. "Snow Night and the Seven Dorks" & "United Bananas" were my first attempts. What I really wanted to be was a director. There were—my 12-year-old self learned—a few main ways to become a director. You could start out as a cinematographer. I had no equipment. You could be a famous actor. I can act. But that doesn't mean I can act well. Or...you can be a writer. In my comp classes, I wrote everything in present tense. One frustrated teacher finally wrote in the margin: "This is not prose! It reads like a screenplay." So, that's how I started.[1][self-published source]
Savio's family was the initial host family to Christian Gerhartsreiter who years later became a convicted murderer and kidnapper.[2] In his teens, Gerhartsreiter lived in Savio's home and it was the last time he used his real name before taking on a succession of aliases. Savio was a prosecution witness in Gerhartsreiter's murder trial in Los Angeles.[3][4]
Early career[edit]
After attending Howard University as the only white undergraduate student to live on campus at the time, Savio moved to Los Angeles, where he wrote a dozen screenplays, honing his skill. Working at the historic, landmark Fox Theater, Westwood Village where he ended up living in the tower for several months, Savio met Jack Freedman, longtime Vice President of Worldwide Film Acquisition at Warner Bros. Freedman optioned Savio's twelfth script, The Royal Pain.
Career[edit]
Screenplays[edit]
Savio continued writing original spec scripts and doing rewrites for independent producers. Almost exactly ten years after arriving, he made his first major sale, selling Swiss Family Rubinstein (with Peter Mackie) to Disney Studios for Bette Midler.[5][6] Then a series of sales followed including "Book 'Em" to Sony[7] for Chris Farley and "Idiots in the Machine to Sony and Academy Award-winning producer Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump) from his debut novel of the same name.[8]
Novels[edit]
Savio's debut novel, Idiots in the Machine, was published in 2001. The film rights were bought in a seven-figure deal by Sony for Academy Award-winning producer Wendy Finerman (Forrest Gump).[8]
Alexander X, Volume I in the Battle For Forever series was published in 2016. A revised and expanded version of the novel was rereleased in 2019 with an accompanying audiobook read by Wil Wheaton. Volume II, Ancient Among Us with Wheaton reprising his role as narrator was released in July 2019.
Velvet Sledgehammer (2020)
Online and other writing[edit]
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Savio created the political cartoon, Dillary to offer an alternative reason for what was going on: that Hillary and Donald were having an affair. After the election, the strip morphed into Ourmaggeddon.
Non-writing[edit]
Before selling his first major script, Savio worked for a number of talent and literary agents, including Lou Pitt, Ed Limato, Todd Harris, Lee Rosenberg. Working for them, Savio witnessed how highly successful people leverage their employees and assistants to get things done more efficiently, which inspired Cloning Yourself For Fun & Profit, a blueprint for outsourcing tasks to streamline personal workflow. This led to Savio co-founding PersonalFriday.com which offers part-time, shared assistants.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ "So, How I Got Started". 9 March 2016.
- ↑ Seal, Mark. "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit". Vanities. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ↑ "Medical examiner in Gerhartsreiter trial describes three blows to head, copious blood likely at scene - The Boston Globe". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ↑ Branson-Potts, Hailey; Leonard, Jack (2013-04-07). "A simple fabulist, or a killer clever at covering his tracks?". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ↑ "The Definitive Spec Script Sales List (1991–2012): 1995". Go Into The Story. 2012-06-11. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ↑ "Dis Wins Wacky 'Swiss Family' in Bidding War". The Hollywood Reporter. March 9, 1995. p. 1.
- ↑ "'Book 'Em' rights read by TriStar". The Hollywood Reporter. October 20, 1995. p. 3.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "'Idiots' delights TriStar, Finerman". Daily Variety. November 20, 1995. p. 1.
- ↑ "LET ME ASSIST YOU". New York Post. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
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