Pat Rushin

Pat Rushin (born 1953) is an American screenwriter and creative writing professor at the University of Central Florida[1] where he has served as the editor of The Florida Review.[2] Rushin's novella, The Call, inspired the screenplay[3] he wrote for The Zero Theorem directed by Terry Gilliam.[4][5][6]

Pat Rushin
NationalityAmerican
Education
OccupationProfessor, Screenwriter
EmployerUniversity of Central Florida

Career

Rushin attended the University of Dayton where he received a B.A. in English in 1976. He later attended Ohio State University where he obtained his masters in English in 1979. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1982 with a masters in Creative Writing and Fiction.[2][7]

In 1991, Rushin's book of short stories, Puzzling Through the News, was published by Galileo Press. The short film No Ordinary Sun (2004) was based on his short story "Speed of Light."[3]

The original script for Rushin's first screenplay was written in 1999 and inspired by The Call.[8][9][10] He submitted it to Project Greenlight, a television series produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck[3] and the sci-fi film, directed by Terry Gilliam, was released in 2013.[10]

In 2015, Rushin's novella The Call: A Virtual Parable was published by Burrow Press.[11] His writing has also been included in literary magazines including Indiana Review,[12] North American Review[13] and American Literary Review.[14]

Bibliography
  • Pat Rushin (1991). Puzzling Through the News. Galileo Press.
  • Pat Rushin (2015). The Call: A Virtual Parable. Burrow Press.

Filmography

References
  1. Leah Schnelback (September 19, 2014). "Terry Gilliam Grabs Life by the Lapels and Demands Answers in The Zero Theorem". TOR. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  2. Nancy Pate (March 23, 1986). "The Florida Review Committed to Quality". The Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  3. "Inventing The Zero Theorem". Dreams. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  4. A. O. Scott (September 18, 2014). "Work, Love and Therapy, in So Many Bytes". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  5. Ty Burr (October 9, 2014). "Gilliam rehash 'The Zero Theorem' still adds up to something". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  6. Philippa Hawker (May 14, 2014). "The Zero Theorem review: Bleak vision nothing to look forward to". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  7. "Pat Rushin, M.A." University of Central Florida. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  8. Chris Knight (August 1, 2014). "The Zero Theorem, reviewed: Life, the universe and nothing — in the style of Terry Gilliam". National Post. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  9. David Ehrlich (September 24, 2014). "Terry Gilliam has no use for happy endings". Dissolve. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  10. Tod Caviness (April 17, 2015). "Screenwriters dish on Terry Gilliam, Ken Russell at Enzian panel". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  11. Jared Smith (March 18, 2015). "Fundament(al): A Review of Pat Rushin's The Call, A Virtual Parable". Atticus Review. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  12. Robert Shapard, James Thomas (1986). Sudden Fiction: American Short-short Stories. Gibbs Smith.
  13. Pat Rushin (September 1984). "Making it Work". The North American Review.
  14. "Contributors". The American Literary Review. Retrieved March 24, 2016.

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