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.](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plague-inc./id525818839?mt=8) for iOS
* [English Verb Classes and Alternations](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0226475336/?tag=johnaugustcom-20) by Beth Levin
* [Researcher’s findings in the Amazon pit him against Noam Chomsky](http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Findings-in-the/131260/)
* [The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls](http://www.amazon.com/dp/030727862X/?tag=johnaugustcom-20) by Jason Turbow
* [Robin Ventura vs. Nolan Ryan](http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=12745349)
* [ScanCafe](http://www.scancafe.com/)
* INTRO: [Godzilla intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTItRfN-LO8)
* OUTRO: [What’s My Name](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iY7c_rqowM) cover by VanJess
You can download the episode here: [AAC](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/scriptnotes_ep_43.m4a).
**UPDATE** 6-28-12: The transcript of this episode can be found [here](http://johnaugust.com/2012/scriptnotes-ep-43-pen-names-and-divine-intervention-transcript).