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When Zack Gottsagen, a young man with acting dreams who also happens to have Down syndrome, asked creative duo Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz to write and direct a film for him, they responded with pure determination to make it happen. "Honestly, I thought, 'That’s a great idea,'" Schwartz says. "He’s the best…

When it came to discussing the making of one of the year’s biggest sleeper prestige-film hits The Peanut Butter Falcon, writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, and star Shia LaBeouf couldn’t help but focus on Zack Gottsagen. The young actor, who has Down syndrome, plays the centerpiece role of Zak, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, whose feature writing and directing debut The Peanut Butter Falcon won the SXSW Audience Award this spring when it had its world premiere in Austin, have signed with WME. Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson toplined Peanut Butter Falcon, a drama that centered on a young man…

The easy explanation of Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s The Peanut Butter Falcon would be that it is a Mark Twain-esque adventure of a grimy small-time criminal and a man with Down syndrome who has run away from home with dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. There is a subtle charm and fun to the film…