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Live in Austin 2024 John and Craig make their triumphant return to the Austin Film Festival for a wild night full of Emmy winning writers. They welcome Shōgun co-creators Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks to look at their process for structuring a series-long adaptation, keeping translations eloquent and accurate, and writing together as a married couple. We then welcome […]
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Featured Friday: Monster Movies Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we look at how monster movies use their creatures to express and exploit our deepest fears. Our collection includes: A Quiet Place by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods Aliens by James Cameron An American […]
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Lynda Obst (1950-2024) & Tentpoles and Tadpoles “I ended up in Hollywood accidentally, so I arrived with a reporter’s eye and an anthropologist’s distance…This book tells everything I know about Hollywood. It’s a pretty funny place. Funny like hell.”—Lynda ObstHello, He Lied I don’t know who first started using the words TENTPOLES and TADPOLES in regards to the film industry, but I […]
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20 Questions (2024 Edition) John and Craig answer twenty listener questions on craft, career, and the future of the industry. Questions include: How do you correct well wishes you haven’t earned? What kind of relationship should you have with the person who created your source material? How do you keep your reps invested? What’s going on with that Stereophonic […]
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Scriptnotes, Episode 655: Conflict and Stakes Compendium, Transcript The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you’re listening to Episode 655 of Scriptnotes. It’s a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, it is a compendium episode, where we go back through the […]
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