Staton Rabin

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Staton Rabin is an optioned screenwriter who adapts IP— including stories based on real people and true events— on assignment for film and TV producers.

She has a chameleon-like ability to write convincing characters and scripts set in any century or country that attract top talent as attachments. Her feature script based on one of her three YA novels from Simon & Schuster, BETSY AND THE EMPEROR, had Al Pacino attached to star as Napoleon Bonaparte and won the Montreal Independent Film Festival and Festival Napoleon in Paris. Her spec feature script SAVING MARK TWAIN (drama-comedy inspired by a true story) won the PAGE Awards Bronze Prize, Vail Film Festival, and is an ISA Fast Track Genre Winner and is ready for packaging.

Known for heartfelt, poignant, and funny scripts with A-list actor-bait roles, Staton has adapted Louis Sachar’s THE CARDTURNER (Sachar also wrote HOLES), Alex Rosenberg’s World War II Adventure/LGBTQ Romance THE GIRL FROM KRAKOW (Austin Film Festival Semifinalist script), Tim Ashby’s historical adventure novel with a Black hero, RANGER, into a TV pilot (BLACK RANGER), and two psychological thrillers, INSTRUMENTS OF NIGHT and RED LEAVES, based on books by Edgar Award-winning novelist Thomas H. Cook.

After earning her BFA in film at NYU, Staton became a freelance story analyst for Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and the former William Morris Agency, taught screenwriting, and has evaluated thousands of scripts for producers and screenwriters.

Honors & Awards

Winner, Bronze Prize Historical Film, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards - SAVING MARK TWAIN - 2023

Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival - THE GIRL FROM KRAKOW (Drama Feature script based on the book by Alex Rosenberg) - 2023

Winner, Best Feature Script, Montreal Independent Film Festival - BETSY AND THE EMPEROR (Staton Rabin's script based on her YA novel from Simon & Schuster) - 2021

Non-WGA/Caucus-only Member

Female, 40+

SAVING MARK TWAIN

Dramedy

Broke and blocked, Mark Twain thinks things can’t get worse—until an insufferable reporter from India, Kipling (23), lands on his doorstep desperate to interview his idol, steals Twain’s daughter’s heart, and throws his life into chaos. Might this maddening fanboy be the only one who can save him? Based on true story.

BETSY AND THE EMPEROR

Drama

A rebellious teen English girl befriends the most feared man on earth-- Napoleon-- while he's held prisoner by the British on St. Helena, grows to love him, and risks her life on her dangerous schemes to help him escape. Based on true story and Staton Rabin's YA novel (Simon & Schuster); book sold in 15 languages.

Character-driven, Female-centric, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Bittersweet, International

Female, 40+

unrepped