Join CCAS for the next installment in the series Five Questions with GW Alumni, featuring GW English Major Jason Filardi, CCAS BA’93. Jason Filardi will share insights on being a Hollywood screenwriter, as well as reflect on how his GW experiences influenced his career. Filardi will be interviewed by Patricia Phalen, Assistant Director and Associate Professor at GW’s School of Media and Public Affairs.
Filardi made his debut in Hollywood with the box office hit Bringing Down the House, which starred Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. That film went on to become one of the highest grossing comedies of 2003, grossing over $130 million in the United States alone.
Since then, Filardi has become one of the industry’s go-to screenwriters. He has worked on a variety of high-profile projects including Beverly Hills Chihuahua, the ensemble comedy Wild Hogs starring Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and John Travolta, The Pacifier, starring Vin Diesel, Eight Below starring Paul Walker and The Proposal starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. In 2018, Jason wrote Status Update starring teen heartthrob Ross Lynch.
Currently, Jason and his brother, Peter Filardi, adapted Stephen King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot for television. The 10-episode series stars Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and will air on Epix Entertainment in August 2021.
The George Washington University’s bicentennial is an incredible, historic milestone. With 27,000+ students from more than 135 countries, a worldwide community of 300,000+ living alumni, and thousands of faculty and staff, the GW community is coming together to celebrate 200 years of phenomenal growth.
What are you waiting for? Come to Michael Bennett’s talk! Prof. Michael Bennett (BA ’02) will be returning to GW this week to speak about his book Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. His talk, on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:30 a.m. in Rome Hall 663, is open to all. Bennett is Assistant Professor of English…
Join the GW community on Thursday, April 15th from 12pm-2pm EST for the “Migration, Gender, and Rights in Comics and Literature: Linking the World” symposium! Hosted by GW’s Department of English and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program, this symposium will explore how contemporary graphic narratives and fiction about South Asia, Syria, and the Caribbean…
Join Professor Jeffrey Cohen from the GW English Department and his Chaucer class for hands-on history at Write Like a Scribe Day. View selected manuscripts from Gelman’s Special Collections and then use the latest technology of the fourteenth century – a quill that you will make yourself, ink, and parchment (the real animal skin kind) –…
Eli Clare, portrait by Riva Lehrer The University Writing Program, English Department, and Disability Support Services welcome Eli Clare to GWU on Wednesday October 3rd, when Clare will speak on “Notes on Cure, Disability, and Natural Worlds” at 7 pm in Gelman 702 (The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Room). Through storytelling and critical analysis, Eli Clare explores the…
DC author David Baldacci will be having a book launch of his latest thriller True Blue on Wednesday, October 28th at 6pm. The book is about a high profile homicide entangled with the shady side of national security. The launch will be held at the Washington Post Conference Center. Although the event will be open…