When I interviewed Elgin James a few weeks ago, his personal narrative was so compelling that it's no surprise Hollywood wanted to option it. A former Boston gang leader who stole from drug dealers to give to straight-edge causes, James had cleaned up his act and moved out West to become a filmmaker, and after seeing two of his scripts accepted into the Sundance Labs, he was preparing to go into production on one of them (Goodnight Moon, starring Alia Shawkat and Juno Temple) in just a few months. It was a striking trajectory, though as James told me then, "The criminal lifestyle is more honest, maybe, then what I found in Hollywood." Still, it seems that former lifestyle may have caught up with him. |
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