#JOHN HILL SCREENWRITER TV#

I was able to keep it a secret for about a decade.' I really needed to know for myself that if I sold a story, I sold it for the right reasons, because people liked it and not because they saw a chance to cash in on celebrity. 'I was very insecure and I had a fear that if I went out as Joseph King, I would get published because I had a famous dad. This is Hill's fourth novel using a pen-name, however, allowed him to forge his own successful writing career without being accused of nepotism. It's like all your hormones are coming to the boil and the possibility that you could ignite at any time seems very reasonable.' 'Now I'm in my 40s, I can look back and see that what I was actually experiencing was puberty. For the next two years, I was sure at any moment I might burst into flames. It's difficult to know when Hill (44), who is the spitting image of his famous father, is joking.Īsked how he came up with the idea for people bursting into flames, he recalls: 'When I was 12, I read about spontaneous combustion and became convinced that's how I was going to die. The 768-page epic focuses on school nurse Harper Grayson, infected and pregnant, who escapes her nice-turned-nasty husband and meets the eponymous fireman, who has managed to harness the illness and helps her join a community of infected fugitives learning to control their sickness. It's shrieking at me and the little staples of its fangs are there, biting me in the face again and again and again.'Īnd that's just when he's talking – pick up Hill's latest novel The Fireman, an apocalyptic tale in which a deadly virus known as Dragonscale causes people to spontaneously combust, and you'll see more grisly imaginings on the page, often peppered with humour. His voice becomes more frenetic, the words spilling out in an explosion of fearful excitement. 'I imagine buzzing along on my motorcycle with my visor up on my helmet and then a bat hitting me in the face and its wings shattering and the visor clamping down and trapping the bat in my helmet with me.' 'I worry about bats when I'm on my motorcycle,' he muses. Hill now serves as Andy Cohen's co-host on Andy Cohen Live on SiriusXM as well as hosting his own weekly show The Feels on RadioAndy SiriusXM channel 102.ASK horror and suspense master Stephen King's son Joe Hill what scares him, and he launches into a rhetoric that clearly shows he's a chip off the old block. Starting in 2010 he began Executive Producing/Writing/Directing bigger shows like The A-List Dallas and Watch What Happens Live, as well as two Logo specials with Bianca Del Rio. After MTV he worked for Oxygen, Bravo, TLC, g4, Showtime, FOX, and more.

#JOHN HILL SCREENWRITER TV#

Hill then began writing and developing Film and TV pitches which brought him to Los Angeles where he collaborated with World Of Wonder and MTV about a show about high school choirs. His next role was as Jason in the cult off-Broadway hit Bare: A Pop Opera. He then understudied Hugh Jackman in the Original Broadway Cast of The Boy From Oz, also starring as Mark Herron. John Arthur Hill comes from an extensive career in Theatre, earning a B.F.A in Theatre Arts from Pepperdine University before joining the Broadway National Tour of Miss Saigon which brought him to NYC where he landed the role of Fender in the original Broadway Cast of the Tony Award winning hit Hairspray.

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