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Writing for Hollywood without living there

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April 28, 2015 Adaptation, Film Industry, International, Los Angeles, Pitches, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

Canadian screenwriter Ryan Knighton joins John and Craig to discuss how you sustain a career writing for Hollywood studios while living a flight away. Knighton’s first screenplay was the adaptation of his memoir about going blind. He’s since written for several studios, including a new project for Ridley Scott.

We also talk about general meetings, pitching, adapting true stories, and the Sundance screenwriting lab.

Links:

  • Ryan Knighton, and on Twitter, Wikipedia, This American Life, The Moth and Reading Aloud with Nate Corddry
  • Ryan’s books Cockeyed and Swing in the Hollow on Amazon
  • What is a treatment? on screenwriting.io
  • Ryan side-by-side with Chris O’Dowd
  • LootCrate
  • The For Dummies series and Google AdWords for Dummies
  • Lovage on Wikipedia
  • Outro by Scriptnotes editor Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 5-4-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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