219 - The One Where Aline’s Show Debuts

Oct 13, 2015

Aline Brosh McKenna joins us to talk through the launch of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and what she’s learned since she introduced us to the show nearly a year ago. Brian Lowry of Variety raves that it is “one of the fall’s most promising hours.” We’re not surprised at all.

 

Then it’s a look at three pages from writer-director Scott Frank’s THE LOOKOUT, examining how a two-character dialogue scene works both on paper and on the screen.

 

Also this week: Indian screenwriters go on strike, Craig goes to Canters, and a French train hero gets stabbed in the second act.

 

If you got your new Scriptnotes shirt, show the world with the hashtag #scriptnotes or #scripnotesT.

 

Links:

 

• Austin Film Festival 2015 panel schedule
• Train hero Spencer Stone stabbed, and Scriptnotes, 214
• Canter’s
• Aline Brosh McKenna on episodes 60, 76, 100, 101, 119, 123, 124 152, 161, 175, 180 and 200
• The New York Times on The Great American Musical, Side B, in ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’
• Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen (and Aline) on Scriptnotes, 175
• Bola Ogun, and the full cast and crew of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on IMDb
• Bollywood to go on indefinite strike from October 3 from The Times of India
• Scott Frank on Wikipedia and IMDb
• The Artful Writer on Scene Harmony
• Three Pages by Scott Frank, and the scene from The Lookout
• Use gift cards from other countries to make purchases in foreign iTunes stores
• Games Magazine
• Outro by Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!)

 

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.