"Welles", "Mac Dog" scribe has new film

Will Conroy, who runs the Arizona Inn, has penned a film due next year starring Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson

AzSTARNET.COM
By Phil Villarreal, 7.26.07

Screenwriter Will Conroy races through a lunch interview at the Arizona Inn, hardly touching his hamburger. He's talking about his exploding writing career, his history-making family and the honor of running the storied hotel his great-grandmother started 76 years ago.

Conroy always seems to be writing, even when he's talking — reaching into thin air for inspiration and filtering it into words. He's a human series of hyperlinks, jumping from one tangent to the next with renewed enthusiasm before doubling back to apologize for talking too much.

He speaks with the exuberance you might expect from someone who co-wrote a screenplay that's now a big-screen reality with Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson in the cast. Full article.