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Join screenwriters Brian Landwehr and Bailey Patterson as they dive into conversations with accomplished writers, exploring their creative processes, triumphs, challenges, and insights.
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Miles Hubley, Tommy White and Scott Waugh (opens the original)
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The Runner screenplay was good enough to make the 2023 Black List. It was also, as its director puts it, unmakeable: a car chase at night, in the rain, through Los Angeles, with a mudslide shutting down the 101. Screenwriters Miles Hubley and Tommy White, along with director Scott Waugh ( Need for Speed ), sit down with Brian and Bailey to discuss Runner (Angel Studios, starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson), the eleven-year road to their first produced feature, and what happened along the way.
Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw (opens the original)
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Two seventeen-year-olds with mutual crushes egged one another into trying out for their college sketch groups. A few years later, their Yale graduation speech went viral, and made them the youngest writers in the history of The Tonight Show. Writing partners, showrunners, and married couple Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold sit down with Brian and Bailey to discuss the second season of Adults (FX), the leap from writing sketches to running their own series, and why every emerging comedy writer nee
Jeff Wadlow, Aja Gabel & MJ Wesner (opens the original)
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A moment of snorkeling panic deep in a Tulum cenote became a joke between friends before it became the inspiration for a shark movie that made the 2019 Black List. Screenwriters Aja Gabel and MJ Wesner and writer/director Jeff Wadlow sit down with Brian and Bailey to discuss The Devil’s Mouth (Amazon Prime Video), its seven-year journey getting to the screen, and what it takes to build a lasting career in show business. How do you write a shark movie with a predator already right there within th
Rebecca Sonnenshine (opens the original)
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She was just five years old when she read the Little House on the Prairie books that made her want to tell stories. Today, she’s the screenwriter and showrunner taking us back into that world. Screenwriter/showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Housemaid, The Housemaid 2, The Boys, Archive 81) sits down with Brian and Bailey to discuss why she writes, how she writes, and how the entertainment business really works. How did an old-school VHS camcorder teach her plenty about storytelling? How did wri
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