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Nobody Eats Four Marshmallows

Episode - 203

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June 23, 2015 Film Industry, Follow Up, QandA, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, WGA, Writing Process

John and Craig take an in-depth look at turnaround and reversion, and how screenwriters get their scripts back from a studio.

We also look at the latest developments in the Gravity saga, and answer a bunch of leftover questions from the live 200th episode.

Links:

  • Scriptnotes 202, in which we discuss FAST Screenplay
  • Scriptnotes 183: The Deal with the Gravity Lawsuit, and follow up from Scriptnotes 186
  • The Gerritsen Ruling, in its entirety
  • Turnaround on Wikipedia
  • The 200th Episode Live Show
  • “Nobody eats four marshmallows” from The Hangover 3
  • Scriptnotes 82, featuring Ben W’s Three Pages
  • Minecraft Hololens demo at E3
  • The “Some Guy” Anthem, by Jonathan Mann
  • Outro by Jonathan Mann (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 6-25-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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