Ever since he won the Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship, Mike Rich has been one of the most sought after screenwriters in Hollywood. Rich became a fellow in 1998 with his first-ever writing effort, “Finding Forrester” (2000). A week after winning the fellowship, Columbia Pictures bought the script for six figures—a rare thing to happen to a tyro scribe (Ironically, Columbia passed on the script six months earlier—before it was a Nicholl winner.) A week after the sale, famed actor Sean Connery signed on to play William Forrester, a one-time Pulitzer Prize-winning
