The Hollywood screenwriter Eric Roth in rehearsals for West End play High Noon

Eric Roth wrote the screenplay for films like Dune and Forrest Gump. Having turned 80, he decided it was time to write his first ever script for the stage. This piece is published in City AM The Magazine , Winter edition, distributed at major Tube stations and available to pick up from The Royal Exchange .

“When Forrest Gump comes on, I just stop,” says the screenwriter Eric Roth. “I watch the rest of the damn movie.” And it’s a rare occurrence that the scriptwriter of Dune , A Star Is Born and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will “just stop” what he is doing. His routine is sacred and doesn’t allow much room for spontaneity. He wakes early in the morning and writes until one o’clock in the afte

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