I love this story, reported by NY 1, about a transit worker who wrote a screenplay called,” Brooklyn’s Finest”, which is being made into a film with Richard Gere.

Now, Martin is watching his words being turned into a major Hollywood movie called “Brooklyn’s Finest.” The movie is not about transit workers, but about Brooklyn police officers, with a cast that includes by Don Cheadle, Richard Gere, and Ethan Hawke.

“When they first told me about the guy, you know they were saying he was a transit worker, and he didn’t have a car. And he wrote this great script,” said the film’s director Antoine Fuqua. “And it just goes to show you, in Hollywood, you just never know. If somebody has a story to tell and a passion for it, and of course the skill to do it, then anything’s possible.”

Amazingly, Martin continued to work as a transit worker even after his screenwriting career took off. He switched to a job as a construction flagger, alerting trains to the presence of track workers, but would often sneak in time to write.

I apologize to anybody that was on the train that got a weird delay, but when I had an idea, I had an idea, and I just had to write it down,” said Martin. “So that train that wasn’t moving, that was me.