Now, the 2016 Tom-in-our-world, given the chance to return to 1964 and fix what he broke and return the world to the spiffy state he knows, faces the dilemma of loyalty to friends and family from his world versus the possibility of settling down with the love of his life in our grungy world. You see, he traveled from his techno-perfect utopian 2016 back to 1964 and really messed things up, leaving us with our current world. Retrieved March 6, 2021.“Tom Barren is a time traveler. ^ 'Canadian 'This Is Us' writer Elan Mastai brings own experiences to the hit show'.'Elan Mastai: 'I wrote about my mother's death, but I used time machines to do it' '. ^ 'The Week in Reading: The Best New Book Releases for February 7, 2017'.^ 'Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Screenwriter's Debut Fetches Seven Figures'.^ 'Film studies students screen short features'.^ 'Elan Mastai taps family history for F Word'.native 'dropped into deep end' of Hollywood while in grad school'. ^ a b 'A wild ride for F Word's screenwriter B.C.^ 'The F Word gave screenwriter chance to use his own voice'.^ 'Enemy biggest movie winner at Canadian Screen Awards'.Mastai is supervising producer and staff writer of NBC's This Is Us. In 2017 he was described as working on a screenplay for All Our Wrong Todays, and working on a second novel. The novel was published on February 7, 2017. A science fiction novel, the book concerns a man from an alternate history utopia who, while part of a time travel experiment, causes a drastic alteration of his history, and regains consciousness in our society.

In 2015, Mastai secured a $1.25 million deal for his debut novel, All Our Wrong Todays. He studied film at Queen's University and Concordia University. Both his parents are Jewish, and they met in Jerusalem. He was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Canadian mother and an Israeli immigrant father. He has described The F Word as the first time he wrote a screenplay in his own voice, rather than to the commercial demands of a mass-audience film. His other screenwriting credits include MVP: Most Vertical Primate and Fury. He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014. The F Word (screenplay), All Our Wrong Todays (novel)Įlan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist.

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