Nov 28, 2017
John and Craig explore the possibilities and consequences of Disney’s potential purchase of Fox film and television studios. What might prevent the sale? What does each side stand to gain? To lose? What could it mean for writers?
Then, it’s another installment of “This Kind of Scene,” in which we dissect the mechanics of an effective breakup scene by looking at Casablanca, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, (500) Days of Summer, Love and Basketball, Brokeback Mountain and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
The Scriptnotes live holiday show is December 7th in Hollywood, with special guest writer-producers Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries), Michael Green (American Gods) and Justin Marks (Counterpart). Ticket link below.
Links:
* Holiday Live Show
tickets are available.
* Godless
on Netflix
* The first 5 chapters of Arlo Finch in the
Valley of Fire are online.
* Hollywood studio real estate-related articles about
Studio City,
Century City, the
history of the Disney Studio and CBS’ possible move to sell
Television City.
* Casablanca scene
and script, with
the scene starting on page 119.
* Forgetting Sarah Marshall scene,
pages, and script.
* (500) Days of Summer scene, pages,
and
script.
* Love and Basketball scene,
pages, and
script.
* Brokeback Mountain scene, pages,
and
script.
* Breakfast at Tiffany’s scene, pages,
and script.
* Merriam-Webster
Time Traveler will show you the words that were added in any
given year.
* If you like that, you might like the Google n-gram viewer which
graphs frequency of word use.
* The Scriptnotes Listeners’
Guide!
*
The USB drives!
* John August on
Twitter
* Craig Mazin on
Twitter
* John on
Instagram
* Find past episodes
* Outro by
Arbitrary Jukebox (send us yours!)
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.