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Fall Out: Making Movies Shouldn’t be Murder

Mark Grenside Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

2:00pm

1 hour

Bodleian: Divinity School

£7 - £12.50

Author, television and film producer, and entrepreneur Mark Grenside talks about his novel, Fall Out, and about his life and career.

Fall Out is a potential blockbuster movie written by a screenwriter who is killed shortly after producing it. The script echoes past events and is sent to a small group of recipients all connected to a movie that had suddenly stopped shooting years before. Producer Marcus Riley sets out to get the movie made and finds himself and other recipients of the script pursued by an assassin from the past. The clues are concealed in the script.

Grenside worked in insurance, specialising in kidnap, ransom and extortion, before switching careers to entertainment. He has worked for Jim Henson and The Muppets, created and produced several television series, arranged the $250 million buyout of the Hallmark Channel International, and founded Dragonfly Biosciences and two digital companies. Here he talks to former LBC radio host and BBC presenter Matthew Stadlen.

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