Story. Screenplay. Sale.
With Argo, Ben Affleck has firmly established himself as a mature, competent director. This time however, Affleck doesn’t take a writing credit. He left the screenplay to the care of Chris Terrio. Here is a Q&A with Terrio and Walter White. Well, you know. Argo Q&A with Bryan Cranston and Chris Terrio from California Film … Read more
A selection of TV writers from British series such as Dr Who, Peep Show, Black Books, and The IT Crowd tell the stories about how they got started, how they write, and what they hate and love about writing. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know … Read more
BLACKLIST founder Franklin Leonard offers a surprisingly unique perspective on Hollywood’s reality: sleepless script execs slaving through piles of bad scripts, all asking each other the same question: ‘read anything good lately?’ This is the riveting origin story of www.blcklst.com If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you … Read more
Alex Garland (writer of the iconic 28 Days Later) talks about why writing a fascist cop protagonist contains the seeds of its own subversion, how to make him a functional anti-hero, and the relationship between comic books and film. If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know … Read more
Screenwriter-director Andrew Dominik discusses adapting Cogan’s Trade into the upcoming release, Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt and Ben Mendelsohn. What attracted him to making the film? How much thought went into the process? Do films make any sense when they’re allowed to grow organically rather than being planned? If you liked this, check out … Read more