John August

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The Next 117 Pages

Episode - 65

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Adaptation, Follow Up, Formatting, QandA, Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed, Words on the page

John and Craig talk about everything that comes after the oft-discussed First Three Pages, speculating on the kinds of issues they’d spot if they were looking at full scripts.

They also answer listener questions on topics ranging from proper spacing protocol to novelists rewriting their screenplay adaptations.

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You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 11-29-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

Dramedy, deadlines and dating your writing partner

Scriptnotes, Transcribed

Screenwriters Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein sit down with John and Craig to talk about writing movies, writing television and writing together.

We met at the Austin Film Festival, which is where we recorded this episode. Both John and Craig assumed Abby and Marc were a couple — but it’s a lot more complicated than that, and any screenwriting teams who have considered sharing more than an ampersand will want to listen to the details.

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You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 11-24-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

The Mystery of the Js

Follow Up, Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed

Craig and John dive back into the Three Page Challenge entries, along with an overview of the 500+ contenders that have been submitted.

In response to listener curiosity, John and Craig also talk about their recording set-ups, and then follow-up on Star Wars, Karateka and Derek Haas’s busy schedule.

All this and more on the 63rd installment of Scriptnotes.

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You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 11-16-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

We’re all Disney princesses now

News, QandA, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, Videogames

John and Craig discuss the big movie news of the week: Disney buying Lucasfilm, and with it, the rights to Star Wars.

Everyone’s already talked about what it means for fans and stock prices, but what does it mean for screenwriters? It could lead to new jobs creating extensions to the Star Wars universe — both in film and television — but does the reliance on giant brands make it harder to create the next culturally-defining franchise?

On the topic of new old things, John has his first-ever videogame coming out tomorrow on Xbox: Karateka, a reinvention of Jordan Mechner’s seminal fighting game from the 1980s. He talks about the challenges of making an indie game and what his role was as an executive producer.

From there, we answer listener questions. Is it okay to love your own writing? How young is too young to write a screenplay? What can be done about a 212 page script? And what does “going out wide” with a spec script really mean?

All this and more in episode 62 of Scriptnotes.

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LINKS:

You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 11-9-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here.