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Pen Names and Divine Intervention

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June 26, 2012 QandA, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

This week, John is a bit under the weather, so Craig takes over moderator duties as they tackle four listener questions:

➤ When you spec a script based on a producer’s idea, who owns it?

➤ And on that topic, do producers ever really buy an idea?

➤ How much divine intervention — or other coincidence — can a movie support?

➤ How do pen names work for screenwriters?

In follow-up, Clive Barker is writing — but not directing — that Amazon Studios project. John regrets the error. And in verb-related news, metal can’t pound, but it can pound flat, oddly enough.

All this and two cool things in this week’s Scriptnotes.

LINKS:

  • Plague Inc. for iOS
  • English Verb Classes and Alternations by Beth Levin
  • Researcher’s findings in the Amazon pit him against Noam Chomsky
  • The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls by Jason Turbow
  • Robin Ventura vs. Nolan Ryan
  • ScanCafe
  • INTRO: Godzilla intro
  • OUTRO: What’s My Name cover by VanJess

You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 6-28-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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