Coyotes roam the Hollywood Hills, not the South Dakota prairies, in the newest feature film from screenwriter and director Nick Simon.
The Sioux Falls native saw his latest movie, named aptly enough “Coyotes,” premiere at Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas, bringing a comedy-horror film that occupied his mind and his computer for about a decade to the screen.
“I wrote it about 10 years ago, but I couldn’t get it off the ground then, and it sat in my computer for a long time,” Simon said.
During a writers strike, as Simon and fellow scripter Tad Daggerhart walked a picket line, they started talking about ideas that had never gone anywhere. Simon told Daggerhart about being caught in a Santa Ana windstorm with his wife, spending three days in a house with no power. The refrigerator quit working, and with no way to open the house gates and no usable phone, the couple was trapped…