Jul 29, 2025
The Scriptnotes Book is real, and now available for preorder! John and Craig take a look through its 335 pages to explore the topics, guests and deep-dives we’ve assembled from over 1,000 hours of this podcast, creating what is sure to be your favorite bathroom book.
Then it’s another round of How Would This Be a...
Jul 22, 2025
In this compendium episode, John and Craig set their focus on directors — and how to work with them as a screenwriter. They look at the inner-workings of the writer-director relationship, etiquette on set, how to communicate notes from pre-production through post, and outline the qualities of the...
Jul 15, 2025
John and Craig welcome back Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit, Dept. Q) to offer their best advice to film students and the people who teach them. They look at ways to improve how we educate writers, and offer advice to an aspiring development executive.
We also look at the intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivations...
Jul 8, 2025
John welcomes back Dan Gregor and Doug Mand (Chip n’ Dale:
Rescue Rangers, Pretty Smart) to ask, how do you revive a dead
genre? Using their upcoming movie The Naked Gun, they look at why
the spoof genre fell apart, the challenges of introducing it to a
new generation, and why turning genre tropes into jokes will...
Jul 1, 2025
John and Craig plant the idea for setups that have the most satisfying payoffs. Different from exposition, setups introduce ideas and concepts to an audience, priming them for a later revelation. They look at the sleight of hand required to have your setups deftly planted, take root in your audience’s mind, and...