May 29, 2018
John and Craig welcome Lisa Joy & Jonah Nolan (Westworld) and Stephen McFeely & Christopher Markus (Avengers: Infinity War) to our annual live show benefitting Hollywood Heart.
We discuss worldbuilding, the challenges and delights of serialized storytelling, and the extreme measures taken to keep secrets.
We also answer audience questions on villains as protagonists, music supervision, and research as procrastination.
Recorded May 22, 2018 at the ArcLight in Hollywood
Links:
* Thanks to the ArcLight, Hollywood HEART, and everyone
who came out for this Live Show!
* Lisa Joy and
Jonah
Nolan are on the second season of Westworld on HBO.
*
Stephen McFeely & Christopher Markus’s Avengers: Infinity War is in
theaters now.
* The Scriptnotes Listeners’
Guide!
*
The USB drives!
* John August on
Twitter
* Craig Mazin on
Twitter
* John on
Instagram
* Find past episodes
* Outro by
Matthew Chilleli (send us yours!)
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
You can download the episode here.