Who is Matt Evans?
Ok, so a lot of people who stumble onto this section of the site will be thinking,
Come on Matt! Who doesn't know who you are!? You're one of the biggest players in Hollywood. You're the owner of the Die Hard Ambulance, you played a crucial role in patching up the generation-spanning feud between the Caan and Busey families, you saved Denzel Washington's life at least once, you're the writer of the most hotly anticipated movie of this century - No Rule to Make Target, you're-
Ok ok. I'm starting to blush here. But take it from me - the guy who knows me best - that's all true. That and more. Without exaggeration I can say that I am one of the most talented people working in Hollywood today. Writing, directing, acting - I do it all. A leading producer at Paramount once said (after I'd pitched a couple dozen ideas at him) that I must produce more scripts than all the other writers working in the business combined. He was that impressed. But he was probably not too far from the truth:
You ever hear that thing about the monkeys being locked up for a thousand years with some typewriters. At the end of the show these guys'll have knocked out everything Bill Shakespeare ever wrote. Put yours truly in the same situation - maybe give me a couple monkeys to make coffee and such - and I'll have taken Shakespeare to the next level. Seriously, I'd have Hamlet gunning down hoards of samurai while an out-of-control blimp comes hurtling towards his castle. Othello's roundhouse kickin the infidel out some Turkish commandos. And I don't think anyone would complain if I heated up R+J a little by changing Romeo to Romiette. I mean, all this came to in the past minute. Give me a thousand years? Forget about it!
So the site? Well this is a place you can hear all about my meteoric career. Rubbing shoulders with the most influential people in the business, keeping the industry ticking over by averting disaster after disaster. All in a day's work for Matt Evans... So now you know. I should warn you that if you have any kind of heart condition or something this might not be the site for you. Non-stop action is my middle name. Well... not really. My middle name is actually Matthew, but that's another story.
Mattsplosion.com is fun and informative for the whole family. Some folks I talk to do tend to overwork the adult end of their vocabularies a little, but that isn't something a couple well placed asterisks can't deal with. I figure a lot of kids out there look up to me and it wouldn't be right if they couldn't read about my life. My message to them: Stay in school. You can learn a lot there - but don't believe everything they tell you. If your teacher tries to convince you of something your gut tells you is wrong, just say,
Sure teach, I'm all over that one.
and then turn and wink to your wingman/wingwoman in the next seat over (always sit next to your wingperson. That way they've got your back). Listen to those feelings in your gut. They got me where I am today... Although, in retrospect, some of those gut instincts may have actually been symptoms of the Crohn's disease I was later diagnosed with. That's another piece of advice kids. Look after your gastrointestinal tract. You never know when you might need it.
In conclusion, welcome to the site. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy living it.