Today’s Wall Street Journal Greater New York section spotlights Westport’s Michael Koskoff and his seven-year effort to write a screenplay about Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice.
Michael and Roz Koskoff and daughter Sarah (at a 2013 Westport screening of “Hello I Must Be Going,” for which Sarah wrote the screenplay.) (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com
Koskoff, a civil rights and personal-injury attorney, took up screenwriting 13 years ago when his daughter Sarah, a screenwriter, gave him a book on the subject, the newspaper said.
“I read it and said all right ‘I’ll give it a try,” said Koskoff, 73, who studied acting before attending law school.
His story, set in the early 1940s, is about a racially charged Connecticut case involving Marshall. It is being made into a feature film called “Marshall” starring Chadwick Boseman, who played Jackie Robinson in “42.”
Koskoff also asked for some help from his son Jacob, a screenwriter of the 2015 film adaption of “Macbeth.”
According to the Journal, Koskoff has no intention of giving up his law career to go Hollywood.
“I absolutely love practicing law, which is why I’m still doing it,” he said. “If I didn’t, I would have retired 10 years ago.”
