J. Gabriel Ware
School
Wayne County Community College District (Detroit), Western Michigan University.
Expertise
Movies, TV, Theater, All Things NBA, WWE Attitude Era
- J. Gabriel's first feature screenplay, "Jakayla," won Third Prize in the CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship Contest (2021).
- "Jakayla also placed in the Austin Film Festival (2021) and as a finalist in the Screencraft Fellowship (2021).
- His pilot, "Close To Home," became an official selection in the "Best of Stage 32" LookBook (2022).
Experience
J. Gabriel Ware is a journalist-screenwriter who worked for ABC News where he worked on the news assignment desk, wrote articles for Abcnews.go.com and field produced for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir. His writing has also appeared in YES! Magazine and Theatermania.
Education
J. Gabriel minored in criminal justice and majored in journalism at Western Michigan University. He earned a master's in communication from the same university and focused on mass communication and media effects.
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Stories By J. Gabriel Ware
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"I feel a great affinity for these characters and these actors."
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'I felt so free, I could do anything.'
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Bill Murray did a lot of ad-libbing on the set for Scrooged — despite having helped develop the revised script himself.
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Scrooged features a 'ballbreaker ballet' scene that involves Carol Kane kicking Bill Murray in the — you guessed it — balls. She also does a little dance!
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'He kept telling me to do things louder, louder, louder. I think he was deaf.'
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A good chunk of the Christmas classic was filmed in a very un-Christmas-y place.
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Modern Christmas classic or pioneering work of filmmaking? You be the judge.
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'I did have a lot of questions...'
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Steve Carell thought up the idea for The 40-Year Old Virgin during his improv comedy days at Second City in Chicago.
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"Standing next to Dwayne, a friend and I made a joke: If he's the Rock, my nickname is the Pebble."
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Turns out, Schwarzenegger loves cracking one-liners off-screen as much as he does on-screen.
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A movie as unorthodox as Total Recall perhaps required unorthodox casting methods.