Dec 31, 2024
John welcomes Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion
King, Homeward Bound) to talk about her experience writing animated
features, from the parallel processes of writing and production to
her paltry paycheck for Beauty and the Beast. They consider the
blurring lines between live-action and hyperrealistic...
Dec 24, 2024
Live from the Austin Film Festival, John joins panelists Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and Erica Harrell & Desirée Proctor (The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners) for an in-depth discussion on working across movies, tv, comics, plays, videogames and VR.
Moderated by Evan Narcisse (Rise of the Black Panther),...
Dec 17, 2024
Many of the biggest AI models have been trained on film and TV dialogue, and writers are furious. John and Craig explore the legal, ethical and philosophical implications of this revelation, our emotional reactions to it, and offer strategies for picking the right hills to die on.
But first, we follow up on the...
Dec 10, 2024
John and Craig welcome Brian Jordan Alvarez & Stephanie Koenig (English Teacher) and Jac Schaeffer (Agatha All Along, WandaVision) to join them for a live holiday benefit for Hollywood HEART. They discuss constructing Agatha All Along from blue sky to the Witches’ Road, “protagonizing” a villain, breaking in...
Dec 3, 2024
John welcomes playwright, novelist and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes to discuss having his first two movies — Challengers and Queer — produced a single year.
After charting his journey from playwright to screenwriter, we compare two drafts of Challengers to look at how the story changed during a hasty development,...