Transcript

Mark Greaney’s Journey from Aspiring Writer to Netflix’s $200 Million ‘The Grey Man’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

0:00
Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The word on Netflix
0:04
Speaker 1: is new high octane thriller The Gray Man, starting Ryan
0:06
Speaker 1: Gossling and Chris Evans is It's one of the most
0:08
Speaker 1: exciting and enjoyable rides of Streamer has released to date, clever, funny,
0:11
Speaker 1: edge of your seat entertainment from start to finish. Netflix
0:14
Speaker 1: put around two in a million bucks into the production,
0:16
Speaker 1: their biggest budget ever, in part because of their faith
0:19
Speaker 1: and its rich source material, the novel The Gray Man
0:22
Speaker 1: by author Mark Graining and his subsequent books in the series.
0:26
Speaker 1: And if anybody out there dreams of their idea getting
0:28
Speaker 1: turned into the next big Netflix blockbuster, just do what
0:30
Speaker 1: Mark did before anybody knew who he was. Simply get
0:33
Speaker 1: out there and start writing. I've been an aspiring writer
0:36
Speaker 1: for a while, but I hadn't had anything published, and
0:38
Speaker 1: I got an idea for a big international thriller with
0:41
Speaker 1: a lot of exotic foreign locations. So I just went
0:44
Speaker 1: to Europe with a backpack and an idea about this
0:47
Speaker 1: assassin with a strong moral code, and I just built
0:50
Speaker 1: out a story from there. The gray Man Netflix, July
0:53
Speaker 1: twenty two. It arrives that's direct from Hollywood,