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NEW YORK — Will Fet­ters is liv­ing an aspir­ing young screenwriter’s dream.His first script, com­pleted while he was study­ing polit­i­cal sci­ence and prep­ping for law school at the Uni­ver­sity of Delaware, just fin­ished a Cin­derella jour­ney to pro­duc­tion and opened in the­aters nation­wide this month.
“Remem­ber Me” is directed by Allen Coul­ter (“Hol­ly­wood­land”) and has a heavy­weight cast that includes Pierce Brosnan, Lena Olin, Chris Cooper and Robert Pat­tin­son of “Twi­light” fame. It was Pattinson’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the film as star and exec­u­tive pro­ducer that secured financ­ing and gave the movie an invalu­able pub­lic­ity boost, the screen­writer said.


But it wasn’t Pat­tin­son whom Fet­ters had in mind while writ­ing the script.
“When you’re a 22-year-old and you don’t know any­one and you’re writ­ing your first script, you have ideals in your head,” Fet­ters said dur­ing a recent press jun­ket. “When I was teach­ing myself to write, I read ‘Amer­i­can Beauty,’ and Chris Cooper was actu­ally the guy that I had in my head for the cop’s role when I was writ­ing in my apart­ment in Delaware.
“And when I heard that he was going to do it — that was actu­ally one of the last roles that we cast — that was pretty cool,” he said. “His per­for­mance in ‘Amer­i­can Beauty’ stayed with me. And to see him cast in my first movie, that was very, very cool.”


Fetters said he never dreamed his first screenplay, loosely based on an incident in his life, would lure such big-name talent.
"I always thought that if I were lucky this would be a small independent film that would go to Sundance without a distributor,” he said. "But to have this actor (Pattinson) at this moment come on board …. It’s wonderful, but who would have thought?
"My life has changed completely,” Fetters said. "When you’re a young writer, you cross this invisible threshold when you get your first movie made. And the fact that Rob’s involved certainly upped the profile. I got my first job offer right after Rob started to circle this project.


"It’s like high school sometimes in Hollywood, where once someone says this guy’s all right, then it’s OK to date me,” he said. "So, other studios started to send me books to look at. And now I’m in this really uncomfortable position where I have to actually choose what work I do as opposed to just doing whatever I’m offered. So, I have to have some culpability for my own career.”