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The Three
Ring Method
Master the Secret Structure
Behind Every Story
That Has Ever Moved You
by Don Handfield — Producer, The Founder · Director, Touchback · Co-Creator & EP, Knightfall · Screenwriting Professor, UCLA, Chapman & UNCSA
Every story that has ever made you laugh, cry, or changed the way you see the world was built on the same hidden architecture.
The Three Ring Method reveals it — and shows you how to use it.
THE METHOD
Great stories work on three levels — simultaneously
THE ME RING
The internal journey
Your character's fear, wound, and transformation. The engine that drives everything.
THE WE RING
The relationship stakes
The human connections that give every choice its weight and every loss its meaning.
THE WORLD RING
The world
The larger forces that transform a personal story into a universal truth.
PRAISE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SCREENWRITER · PRODUCER · DIRECTOR · EDUCATOR
Don Handfield is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and educator with over two decades of experience developing stories across film, television, and comics. He is the co-creator and executive producer of Knightfall (History Channel), producer of The Founder starring Michael Keaton, and writer for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories reboot on Apple TV+. He co-founded The Combine with two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner, producing numerous critically acclaimed television and features. He has written for or set up projects at every major studio, and his work has been optioned by some of Hollywood's most respected producers and studios, including Westbrook Entertainment (Will Smith) and Maximum Effort (Ryan Reynolds). As an educator at UCLA, Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Handfield has spent years refining the framework at the heart of The Three Ring Method.
FILMS & TELEVISION
Producer
The Founder
Critically-acclaimed origin of McDonald's starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman and Laura Dern.
Director
Widow (2027 release)
A thriller about a woman and her baby son on the run from a ruthless cartel gang.
Writer
Knightfall
An epic History Channel series detailing the final days of the legendary Knights Templar.