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Blacklisted is a podcast where we delve into the minds of the talented writers who have been featured on the annual Black List - a prestigious list of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood, as voted on by industry professionals.
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Alex Convery (opens the original)
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Visit the new Stan Store @ stan.store/blacklisted Subscribe to our extended interviews on Spotify here . Before he was writing Air for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Alex Convery was chasing his own guy on the sidelines of college football. In this episode, Convery breaks down Bag Man , his 2018 Black List script about a college football fixer navigating star quarterbacks, blue-chip recruits, and the NCAA agent closing in on him — a world Convery mined fo
Kelly Marcel (opens the original)
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Visit the new Stan Store @ stan.store/blacklisted Subscribe to our extended interviews on Spotify here . Before Fifty Shades of Grey , before Venom , Kelly Marcel wrote a spec about a two-week standoff between Walt Disney and P.L. Travers, and it landed on the 2011 Black List. This week on Blacklisted , Kelly joins me to talk about turning one of Disney's most closely guarded pieces of company history into Saving Mr. Banks. We also get into her leap from T
Leo Sardarian & Joe Russo (opens the original)
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Visit the new Stan Store @ stan.store/blacklisted Subscribe to our extended interviews on Spotify here . This week on Blacklisted , we're doing something new: bringing a writer and the executive who developed the idea with him into the same room, together. Leo Sardarian and Joe Russo join me to talk about Nicholas — the 2013 Black List script that reimagines the man behind the St. Nicholas myth as the hero of a sprawling, Odyssey-style journey through the anci
Kat Wood (opens the original)
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Visit the new Stan Store @ stan.store/blacklisted Subscribe to our extended interviews on Spotify here . This week on Blacklisted, we're joined by screenwriter Kat Wood, whose spec script Ruby made the 2020 Black Lis t and sold to Amazon Studios and 87North in a competitive situation. Kat's path here is its own story - she started as a BBC broadcast journalist in the UK before breaking into Hollywood with sci-fi specs Envoy and Genus , both of which sold to Amy Pa
Todd Bartels & Lou Howe (opens the original)
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Visit the new Stan Store @ stan.store/blacklisted Subscribe to our extended interviews on Spotify here . This week we're joined by writing partners Lou Howe and Todd Bartels, whose Dolly Parton origin story Dumb Blonde landed on the 2022 Black List - and whose next collaboration just got a lot bigger. Their Anthony Bourdain feature Tony , directed by Matt Johnson and starring Dominic Sessa, hits theaters from A24 this week, and we get into what it actually looks like
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