pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

screenwriter from the deep south. writing for/about poor and working-class people. rep: Sovereign Talent Group brettfelty.com Joined June 2023

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

4 days ago

Too dumb to write a There Will Be Blood and not dumb enough to write the upcoming Candy Crush live-action thriller. I’m in the screenwriting dead-zone.

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

5 days ago

There’s a great line in The Wire where someone says, vis-a-vis the ‘the drug war’: “you call a thing a war, pretty soon people are gonna start acting like soldiers.” Turns out the culture war works the same way.

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

5 days ago

At least we don’t have to hear Charlie Kirk’s take on this whole Charlie Kirk situation. Small graces

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

2 weeks ago

Trying to figure out an AI-proof career that won’t require me to go to college and I have landed on hairdresser. Hopefully people aren’t yet ready to place their heads in the AI scissordome

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

3 weeks ago

I have never wished death upon any person, but I am decidedly not sending thoughts and prayers to DC right now

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

4 weeks ago

Instead of “here, kitty kitty,” I trained my cats to respond to the singsong call “ladies, bruuuuunch!” Which is really funny until one slips out the door and I find myself wandering the streets singing that phrase like a lunatic

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

4 weeks ago

What up Philly

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

4 weeks ago

Damn, I sure could use some laurels to rest on

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

a month ago

hello Donald

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

a month ago

Riding through the DC suburbs. Everywhere I look I see white people running, all running. What are they afraid of? What are they running from?

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

a month ago

I would like to inform the NSA agent assigned the task of my surveillance that yes, I am in DC, but that it is totally unrelated to my recent ecoterror-adjacent rants

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

a month ago

After a decade of obstinant refusal, I'm finally doing it: I'm writing a horror feature. But don't worry, I'll still be Trojan Horsing my characteristic class conscious political indignation and esoteric philosophical predilections in the margins between blood and shrieks

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pastfuturebrett @pastfuturebrett

a month ago

Word is that the new broad studio directive is "no more woke. Back to the days of chest-thumping alpha male action heroes." If this is true, Hollywood is even more spineless than I thought