Peter Barsocchini

Perfect Cover: Screenplay & Director

Peter Barsocchini began his professional writing career while still attending high school in the San Francisco area, chronicling for newspapers the explosion of the American rock scene in the late sixties and early seventies. Barsocchini, also while a high school student, was awarded his own column on popular music for a daily Bay Area newspaper, and went on to write more than three hundred weekly installments, including interviews with greats such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Elton John. Upon graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Creative Writing, Barsocchini’s continuing journalism background landed him a job as an interviewer and talent coordinator for the nationally syndicated “Merv Griffin Show”. During that period, Barsocchini produced more than a thousand broadcasts, and became the youngest producer of a national talk show at that time. He went on to win two Emmy awards, and wrote and produced two highly rated prime-time specials for NBC. His transition into filmed entertainment began with the publication of his first novel, “Ghost”, which landed him a screenwriting job at Paramount Pictures.

His first screenplay, the action/thriller “Drop Zone”, starring Wesley Snipes, was produced by Paramount. The DEA granted Barsocchini unusual access during his research for the film, which ultimately led to his interest in the novel “Perfect Cover”, about the undercover exploits of Joyce St. George. He also penned the novel adaptation of the first “Mission Impossible” film for Tom Cruise and Paramount, a book that was published in fourteen different languages.

Peter Barsocchini is best known as the writer of Walt Disney’s phenomenally successful “High School Musical” series of films, a global franchise that has reached 500 million viewers worldwide, and generated over two billion dollars in revenue, including stage versions, an ice show, concert tour, books, electronic games, and consumer products. “High School Musical 3: Senior Year’ enjoyed the largest opening weekend box office of any musical in the history of feature films, and went on to gross 253 million dollars in worldwide box office receipts.

Currently, Barsocchini is writing films for Dream Works, Mandate Films, and HBO, as well as numerous television projects, and is making the transition into directing his own material. He is represented by attorney Christine Cuddy, Esq. of the Los Angeles based firm Kleinberg, Lopez, Lange, Cuddy & Klein.

Dopey Cowboy Films LLC is in the business of producing motion pictures and is currently raising capital to develop and produce a feature length film with the working title, Perfect Cover.  Investors are only responsible for the amount of money they decide to invest, and are not accountable for other debts or obligations. Investors will be repaid their initial investment before anyone else receives anything from the project.

Email brad@dopeycowboyfilms.com for details.

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