Carl Kurlander

Carl Kurlander is a screenwriter, TV writer/producer, documentary filmmaker, and teaching professor at the University of Pittsburgh. “St. Elmo’s Fire” began as a short story he wrote at Duke University to impress a waitress he became infatuated with working as a bellhop at the St. Elmo Hotel. In the film which launched “The Brat Pack,” Demi Moore dances on a Wurlitzer jukebox as Rob Lowe wails on his saxophone. That has inspired Kurlander’s latest film, “Jack and the Jukebox” currently in production. His memoir of the making of “St. Elmo’s” is being developed into an oral history as the film has been called “the perfect time capsule of the 80s.” His substack where he writes about film and pop culture is https://carlkurlander.substack.com/.