John and Craig make their triumphant return to the Austin Film Festival for a wild night full of Emmy winning writers. They welcome Shōgun co-creators Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks to look at their process for structuring a series-long adaptation, keeping translations eloquent and accurate, and writing together as a married couple.
We then welcome Susan Soon He Stanton (Succession, Dead Ringers) and Megan Amram (The Good Place, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin) to discuss staffing on shows and crafting jokes. We also invite two audience members to play a new game: IMDB Sweeney Todd.
In our bonus segment for premium members, the panel answers audience questions on adaptations, a crossover with Succession and The Good Place, entering Hollywood from outside the U.S., and navigating Hollywood’s current contraction.
Links:
- Austin Film Festival
- Scriptnotes LIVE! December 6th at Dynasty Typewriter
- Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks
- Megan Amram
- Susan Soon He Stanton
- Decoder Ring – “The Wrongest Bird in Movie History”
- Vote Out Ted Cruz
- Brick App
- r/TVTooHigh
- Bliss Lau
- A Dream of Islands by Gavan Daws
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- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
- John August on Threads, Instagram, Twitter and Mastodon
- Outro by Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt, with special help this week from Chris Csont and Megana Rao. It is edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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UPDATE 11-21-24: The transcript for this episode can be found here.