About Ancient Pictures
The Company has been a part of the Seattle film experience for nearly 10 years. The first project the company began to develop was titled 'Divine Intervention'. The project had the support by several well know actors, it was financed and
proceeding to pre-production, when the financing fell through.
The project received financing a second time within 12 months, which too fell through. And so the story goes from there, the company was ordained by some of the common pitfalls of film production.
Over the next few years, Jay Johnson worked on films as Assistant Director and Executive Producer. Then he met Tad Devlin, Executive Producer of such films for Disney as Mighty Ducks 3 and George of the Jungle. Jay had
written several screenplays for the series Tales from the Crypt which was cancelled by HBO after 5 seasons. With these screenplays in hand Jay and Tad began to work toward creating a new horror series similar to Tales but based on original material.
Over the next year, Jay wrote articles on film production and worked with Seattle writers to create a forum and avenue to promote writers and projects from Seattle.
As films are solely dependant on the talents of writers, their vision, their craft, this site was created to brings writers together across the US and assist them to grow and markets their final products.
If you are a writer, please join us in our efforts to promote the craft of writing for the silver screen.
Thanks and good luck.
Jay Johnson