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Writers Rooms, Taxes, and Fat Hamlet

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October 20, 2015 Film Industry, Follow Up, News, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, Writing Process

John and Craig discuss the trend of hiring multiple writers to work concurrently on tentpole features. Can movies be written like television, and should they?

Then it’s a look at tax bills that LA-based writers may find themselves facing, and why you shouldn’t be afraid of a portly Hamlet.

Also this week, a strange French plagiarism case, and John considers writing a book in November.

Reminder that John is interviewing Drew Goddard for a special Writers Guild Foundation event on October 28th. Tickets available through the link below.

Links:

  • Get tickets now for the WGAF’s October 28th Writers on Writing event with Drew Goddard, moderated by John
  • Austin Film Festival 2015 panel schedule
  • John Carpenter Wins Plagiarism Case Against Luc Besson Over ‘Lockout’
  • Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist on Wikipedia
  • /Film and How Did This Get Made’s oral history of Theodore Rex
  • November is the month for flu shots, Movember and NaNoWriMo
  • Overcast now has chapter support
  • THR on The Problems When Many Writers Work on ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Transformers’ and Other Film Franchises
  • AB63 Tax Program FAQ, and on Reddit, LA Weekly and NBC 4
  • Is Hamlet Fat? A Slate investigation
  • Computer Show with Adam Lisagor
  • Tesla Autopilot First Ride: Almost as Good as a New York Driver
  • Outro by Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 10-22-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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