Ron Hutchinson: In Conversation

Emmy Award winning Ron Hutchinson grew up in Mullaghbuoy in Northern Ireland and spent thirty years working in Hollywood as a screenwriter for films such as The Island of Dr. Moreau, Blue Ice and Against the Wall.

In this unique talk and performance piece created especially for the Belfast Film Festival, he reveals the often blackly funny truth about working with the likes of Marlon Brando on one of the movie businesses legendary disasters and the lessons to be drawn from it.

Among the other cast of characters are John Frankenheimer, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Cruise, Samuel L Jackson and a drunk at a Los Angeles bar who claimed Sean O’Casey ruined his life by bringing him to Hollywood to star in a screen adaptation of one of his plays.

It all began on Islandmagee listening to stories about the Larne gunning running in 1914, and after a move to Coventry his career path was changed forever by an IRA bomb…