Sherry found a story that wowed him, “The Monkey” from the 1985 collection “Skeleton Crew,” wrote a screenplay based on it and submitted it. More than 125 filmmakers have taken up the challenge over the years, the most famous being a then 20-year-old Frank Darabont, who went on to direct “The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Green Mile” and “The Mist,” all based on King works. The bestselling writer came up with the idea back in 1977 to give aspiring filmmakers and theater producers the chance to adapt one of his lesser-known stories for $1, with the stipulation that the films would not be shown commercially or for a profit. “Just putting it out there and just saying, ‘Hey, this is something I do, here’s something that I’ve written, anyone that wants to look at it and give me feedback or just talk about it is welcome to,’ and I think you just find those people kind of come to you when you just say what you want and shout ‘help’ for as long as you can.”Īfter laboring on his first short film project, one that was half destroyed when a storm caused his computer server to crash, he decided to have a go at horror master Stephen King’s Dollar Baby program. Most of the drive was just the writing and the storytelling and coming up with cool shot ideas and twists and then the actual narration of it all.”Īnd he finds the collaborative efforts of others in the film community – particularly in this region – extremely welcome and inviting. It was more just the stories and writing. I never really had a love or desire for the technical elements of the filmmaking. “I’m still not very technically proficient with a camera,” he says, “I’m learning as I move through these processes and as I work with people on things.
The fortuitous sidelining of his education brought him into the big leagues, but without all the mechanical know-how. Growing up loving movies, Sherry had never entertained it as a career choice until he was around 21 and that led to his stint at UAlbany where he figured he could at least get some hands-on experience with the school’s equipment. “The first week of shooting is finals week and I promptly dropped out and ran down to New York, and then worked down there for about a year.” Less than a full year in and a former student-turned-assistant director/producer returned to give a talk at the school, and he left with a newly dropped-out Sherry in tow as a production assistant on the Netflix romantic comedy, “Set It Up,” starring Lucy Liu, Taye Diggs, Zoey Deutch and Pete Davidson. After graduating high school, Sherry left his tiny town of Laurens, just north of Oneonta in Otsego County, to attend the College of Saint Rose, but it wasn’t the right fit, so he headed homeward to Oneonta and another major, only to try again at the University at Albany.
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