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Franz Kafka’s brother, and the perfect agent

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November 25, 2014 Film Industry, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

John and Craig talk about why writers are often reluctant to show their work, and how film journalists love to focus on the director — even when there’s no director in sight.

Then, it’s part two of our Perfect series, in which we look at what constitutes the perfect agent. Underlying the agent archetypes — advisor, advocate, connector — is a relationship based on honesty and trust. How do you build it? How do you maintain it? We offer our opinions from the writer’s side of the phone sheet.

Come to our live show on December 11th in Hollywood! You’ll find the link in the show notes.

Links:

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  • Chris Pratt Circles Cowboy Ninja Viking
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  • Christopher Nolan’s Brother to Adapt Isaac Asimov’s Foundation for HBO, on Vulture
  • Frequent Tim Burton Collaborator to Pen Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie, from Time
  • Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Movie Writer Could Change Everything, on io9
  • Franz Kafka and Max Brod on Wikipedia
  • High Maintenance, and on Vimeo and Wikipedia
  • The Worst Line in Scriptwriting History from Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
  • Mortal Kombat: A Novel on Amazon
  • Get your tickets now for the Scriptnotes Holiday Show
  • Rachel Bloom’s NSFW song about Ray Bradbury
  • Outro by Scriptnotes editor Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 12-1-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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