How Scots screenwriter Drew Pearce became a Hollywood success story

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How Scots screenwriter Drew Pearce became a Hollywood success story
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DREW Pearce is in a good mood. The Fall Guy, his latest Hollywood blockbuster as a screenwriter, was met with strong buzz after its premiere at SXSW…

DREW Pearce is in a good mood. The Fall Guy, his latest Hollywood blockbuster as a screenwriter, was met with strong buzz after its premiere at SXSW in March, while Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s Oscar nominations, as well as Gosling’s performance

While he’s credited with writing Iron Man 3, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, and Hotel Artemis he has actually worked on scripts for 60 movies in this time. With their grandparents and family still up in Scotland, Pearce would regularly have to spend hours in the car visiting them. He said: “My entire childhood is defined by those 12-hour drives up the M1 to see my grandparents and get very buttered toast when we arrived late at night.

Pearce said: “ABC are owned by Disney, and No Heroics was incredibly R-rated, so I knew it wasn’t a good fit. It was a disaster. In November 2019, Pearce was approached by director David Leitch, who he’d just worked with on Hobbs & Shaw, about The Fall Guy. Pearce said: “They didn’t know that The Fall Guy was my favourite show as a kid. It was what I watched on Saturday evenings."I just knew the tone and the vibe of what I wanted to do with it, even though we had to throw most of what the TV show is about out and build an entirely new story and new set of characters.

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