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Jan 26, 2016

Where do screenplays go when they die? John and Craig take a look at their movies that never were, looking for patterns among dozens of their unproduced works. What can screenwriters learn from the dead, and is it ever worth trying to resurrect these flatliners?

 

We also have lots of follow-up on finding a place to...


Jan 19, 2016

Craig and John play “How Would This Be a Movie?” looking at three articles in the news.

 

A band of pensioners pull off an audacious jewel heist – but is it a Working Title comedy, or something darker? Where does the story begin and end? What’s the MacGuffin?

 

A researcher investigates sleep paralysis and...


Jan 12, 2016

Craig and John discuss the impact of Star Wars knocking down all the records, both for the industry and big-screen sci-fi.

 

We also look at yet another start-up that promises to separate hits from flops, the shocking revelation that critics are humans, and three new WGA proposals. Finally, we look at ways to let...


Jan 5, 2016

With Craig out of town, John invites Aline Brosh McKenna and Rawson Marshall Thurber over to discuss three of the best-picture contenders and their unusual scripts. None of them have classic protagonist-antagonist setups, and all three upend expectations of narrative structure. We talk about both how they work and why...