Beste Write On podcasts (2024)

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Write On: 'Three Women' Creator Lisa Taddeo 39:25

13h ago39:25

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“One of the things that I really wanted to focus on, and I felt it immediately after meeting Lina the housewife in Indiana [played by Betty Gilpin in the show], whose husband no longer wanted to kiss her on the mouth, I felt like this woman was as important as the Queen of England, as important as Napoleon. I felt her dreams and fears are just as u…

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Write On: Screenwriting Coach Lee Jessup & Literary Manager Jeff Portnoy 44:16

5d ago44:16

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“The streaming bubble finally popped, and I think the tip of the spear that popped it was the double strikes we had last year and now we’re calling it the great contraction. It’s a really tough time for up-and-coming writers to break in. It’s tough for everyone, even up-and-coming agents and managers, anyone coming out to Hollywood to pursue a care…

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Write On: 'Here' Screenwriter Eric Roth 36:49

8d ago36:49

36:49

“I think [Here] has some of the imagination of Forrest Gump, but it's not Forrest Gump. It's a different animal. I mean, it has the same kind of humanity to it, which is what I'm pretty good at,” says Eric Roth about his latest film Here, co-written and directed by Robert Zemeckis and reuniting actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. On today’s podcast,…

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Write On: Horror Writing with Seth Sherwood 58:20

19d ago58:20

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“Comedy and scares are so similar. I've found that in a lot of my scripts, it's almost like you're taking the peaks and valleys of humor, and the peaks and valleys of scares, and flipping them on each other. So, you have the scare that you come down from for a moment of brevity and humor, or just character work, and then you do another scare. You’v…

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Write On: 'Hysteria' Showrunner Matthew Scott Kane 45:03

25d ago45:03

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“We wanted the whole series, but specifically the pilot episode, to lure you in with the kind of comfort and coziness of the 80s nostalgia and the trappings of John Hughes movies, and all of that, while also giving it the 80s heavy metal flavor, and then start to build paranoia and change the vibe a little bit throughout. But we always knew that th…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 09-10-2024 - Tracey Slaughter - Indepth interview 46:04

1M ago46:04

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Tracey Slaughter - Indepth interview with Tracey Slaughter - This month Beverly talks frankly with multi award winning short story writer, poet and essayist Tracey Slaughter about her game-changing Editing workshop (held here in Dunedin as part of the NZSA regional roadshow)They also discuss the 'high risk, high rewards' of striving for 'truth' in …

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Write On: 'Pachinko' Showrunner Soo Hugh 31:48

2M ago31:48

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“Sometimes I think [the show Pachinko] is almost too personal. I feel like every show, you look at it and say, ‘How much of myself is in this show?’ I did a show [The Whispers] about children who were communicating with an invisible alien force and somehow, I had to figure out how to make it part of me as well. We try to put ourselves in as much of…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 11-09-2024 - Writers and Writing - Cristina Sanders 45:06

2M ago45:06

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Writers and Writing - This month Beverly interviews visiting writer Cristina Sanders (author of 'Jerningham' and 'Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant') about her latest novel Okiwi Brown. They also discuss the joys and challenges of writing historic (colonial) fiction, and why one should always examine and question source data.Broadcast o…

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Write On: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Writers Al Gough & Miles Millar 38:31

2M ago38:31

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“I think what Tim [Burton] does is he's always trying to simplify. That’s the essence of a classic filmmaker. People think he's wild and crazy and does all these things. His movies are brilliantly composed frames and he's always looking for simplicity. All of his big movies, they're really family dramas dressed up in whatever genre he's in. That's …

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Write On: 'Sunny' Co-Creator & Showrunner Katie Robbins 36:41

2M ago36:41

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“I think that Sunny [the robot], as a character, is kind of emblematic of this conundrum we have with A.I. In one scene she is cute and warm and is serving Suzie's [Rashida Jones] emotional needs and is brimming with potential. And that's really enticing. And then in the next scene, she is diabolical, and is going to like, cut a bitch! That is A.I.…

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Write On: 'Fallout' Co-Creator & Showrunner Graham Wagner 34:49

3M ago34:49

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Almost all the characters [in Fallout, the TV show] are brand new… We really took the world of Fallout that had been built up and iterated upon by other video game writers over the years and we wanted to do our own version of it rather than retell any version that someone else has already done. Our attitude was like, ‘Okay, let's say this is a new …

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 14-08-2024 - Exciting Upcoming Dunedin Literary Events - Michelle Elvy and Vanda Symon 56:09

3M ago56:09

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Exciting Upcoming Dunedin Literary Events - This month, Beverly shares details on the plethora of literary events happening in Dunedin in the next few weeks. These include reader events at UBS, the Small Press Fest, and an all-day Janet Frame Symposium. Branch chair Michelle Elvy also shares tantalising details about our National Poetry Day event o…

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Write On: 'Cobra Kai' Showrunners Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg 38:06

4M ago38:06

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“We were all six or seven years old when [the first Karate Kid movie] came out. So all of us saw it in the theater and I think for all of us, it was probably the first time any of us had seen a movie where there was such an amazing twist that happened. The whole time, we’re thinking that Daniel LaRusso's not learning [karate], that he's doing all t…

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Write On: 'A Family Affair' Writer Carrie Solomon 39:29

4M ago39:29

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“I came up doing improv where failure is the golden standard. And in improv, if you're not failing, you're doing something wrong. I feel really lucky that that was one of my bridges into entertainment and creativity, to have such a loving relationship with failure because, boy! As a writer, your days are filled with it and rejection and killing you…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 10-07-2024 - Talking about Books and Writing - Feana Tu'akoi and Ina Kinski 44:39

4M ago44:39

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Talking about Books and Writing - This month Beverly chats to the 2024 University of Otago College of Education Creative NZ Children's Writer in Residence, Feana Tu'akoi, about what she's been working on during her time in Dunedin, and why portraying Tongan and Palangi characters is at the heart of her work.Next, Beverly discusses an eclectic, abso…

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Write On: 'Inside Out 2' Co-Writer Dave Holstein 29:20

5M ago29:20

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In this episode, I talk with Dave Holstein, co-writer of the upcoming Disney/Pixar sequel Inside Out 2, which takes us back into the mind of a now teenage Riley as she navigates a whole new crop of personified emotions, including Envy, voiced by The Bear star Ayo Edebiri, and of course, Anxiety, voiced by Stranger Things’ Maya Hawke. Dave describes…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 12-06-2024 - Interesting interview with local authors - Penelope Todd and Majella Cullinane 48:33

5M ago48:33

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Interesting interview with local authors - Beverly chats with two acclaimed writers: Penelope Todd and Majella Cullinane about their new books: a novel, and poetry collection, respectively, with the common theme of Matriarchy. Firstly, Penelope shares the challenges and delights of writing about the life and times of her grandmother, "Nell" while M…

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Write On: 'Late Night' Host Seth Meyers 29:42

5M ago29:42

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“Just a shout out to everybody who's listening who has ever written a movie. This is a true story – I was writing a movie. I had been paid to write a movie and I was writing a movie when I got Late Night. And when I got Late Night, my first thought wasn’t, 'Oh my god, I'm going to have my own talk show.’ My first thought was, ‘Oh my god, I don't ha…

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Write On: 'Ezra' Writer Tony Spiridakis 38:00

6M ago38:00

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“From Robert De Niro, I learned not to force anything. Not to force your idea of how something should be and then go from there. Not, ‘Oh, this should be funny,’ or ‘Oh, I'm going make you cry.’ That's the wrong thing. You just need to think about the thing the character is experiencing and don't push it – have it happen. And he was obsessive with …

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Write On: 'Bridgerton' Showrunner Jess Brownell 28:01

6M ago28:01

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“One of the main things I’ve learned from Shonda [Rhimes] is to focus on what you really want to see, yourself, in a season. Not necessarily what should happen. I remember on Scandal, in the writers room, we would craft what we thought were these perfectly structured stories. And Shonda would come in and pitch something that was really wild, kind o…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 08-05-2024 - Interviewing Southern writers - Kathryn Van Beek, Carolijn Guytonbeck and Kyle Mewburn 55:18

6M ago55:18

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Interviewing Southern writers - This month I chat with Kathryn Van Beek (one of the editors) and Carolijn Guytonbeck (one of the contributors) to "OTHERHOOD" an important new anthology of essays by women who for a myriad of reasons are NOT mothers in the traditional, societally-expected sense.Then I catch up with acclaimed Central Otago children's …

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Write On: 'Challengers' Writer Justin Kuritzkes 33:04

7M ago33:04

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“Tennis is an amazing sport to think about a love triangle because it’s so deeply charged erotically," says Justin Kuritzkes, screenwriter for the new film Challengers, starring Zendaya. "Tennis is a game that’s so steeped in repression, but also in wild abandon. There’s all these rigid rules and prescriptions of movement and boxes that the ball ha…

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Write On: 'The First Omen' Writers Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith 36:25

7M ago36:25

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“We had to go back to the ratings board five times. It was a long journey. You have to laugh sometimes, because we had some really grotesque imagery in our film. We even have a demon phallus in the film and nobody was worried about that. It was really the image of the vagina that was getting us that rating,” says Arkasha Stevenson, director, and co…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 10-04-2024 - In-depth interviews with NZ writers and their work - Karen McMillan and Mikaela Nyman 49:26

7M ago49:26

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In-depth interviews with NZ writers and their work - This month Beverly chats with prolific author Karen McMillan, about her new historical romance ('Turbulent Threads') set in Victorian Dunedin.Then she has an in-depth catch up with 2024 Burns' Fellow, Mikaela Nyman (who writes in both English and Swedish) about her creative priorities for the yea…

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Write On: 'Arthur the King' Writer Michael Brandt 30:51

8M ago30:51

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Writer Michael Brandt is no stranger to the big and small screen. Having written such thrilling films like 3:10 to Yuma, Wanted, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Catch That Kid, he is also the co-creator of NBC’s Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Justice. His latest film, which he adapted from the book, "Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle…

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Write On: 'The American Society of Magical Negroes' Writer/Director Kobe Libii 21:56

8M ago21:56

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"When I sat down to start writing it, I sort of like came up with air a couple of hours later with a movie," says writer/director Kobi Libii about the origins of his new satirical comedy, The American Society of Magical Negros. “I think it's kind of beautiful that people don't have a reaction that I recognize because my job is to be really honest, …

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 13-03-2024 - Creatives involved in the Dunedin Fringe Festival - Cindy Diver and Dr Chris Brickell 45:23

8M ago45:23

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Creatives involved in the Dunedin Fringe Festival - My first guest is Professional Theatre Maker Cindy Diver, who is directing 'LAVVIES2' in this year's Festival. We chat about the show's specifics plus the challenges of presenting it in a non-theatre space. Then we delve back into some of the highlights of Cindy's 30+ year creative career - such a…

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Write On: WGAeast Mentors Andrew Bergman and Caroline Kaplan and NY Screenwriting Fellowship Mentee Irina Rodriguez 42:57

8M ago42:57

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“Just write a story you want to tell and don't try to write something which you think you can sell to somebody because that way is madness. You have to write what you want to write whether it works or not for other people. But if it's not authentic to you, it's doomed at some point along the road. So stick to your guns!” says award-winning writer, …

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Write On: 'Imaginary' Writer/Director Jeff Wadlow and Co-Writers Greg Erb & Jason Oremland 37:59

8M ago37:59

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“The movie in many ways is about creativity. And it's one of the reasons why I really love it. It's not just about an evil haunted teddy bear. It's about the power of imagination. There's a reason why the movie isn't called Chauncey - it's called Imaginary. It was really fun as screenwriters to just let our creativity run wild and think of all the …

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Write On: 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Showrunner and Executive Producer Albert Kim 39:21

9M ago39:21

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“I would encourage anyone to lean into the specificity of their personal experience [when it comes to writing]. I mean, we're at a time now, fortunately, where everyone is more open to those kinds of stories… Look at something like Beef. The specificity of that storytelling is what makes it special. It's not like they come out with a logline, sayin…

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Write On: 'Bob Marley: One Love' Writers Terence Winter and Frank E. Flowers 41:58

9M ago41:58

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“I think what's unique about this biopic and about Bob [Marley’s] story is that it really wasn't about his ego, it wasn't about him trying to be the biggest star in the world. It was about him connecting with God. I mean, he would smoke weed to kind of lower his ego and raise his consciousness so that he could read scripture, right? He would take t…

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Write On: 'Masters of the Air' Co-Executive Producer and Writer John Orloff 41:39

9M ago41:39

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“I always go back to theme. Why are you writing this story? What is that final couple of minutes of the movie and what do you want the audience to feel? I kind of always build backward from that in some ways. In a movie, how do I make the 118 minutes preceding those two minutes build to those last two minutes? To me that’s a really good film. And a…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 14-02-2024 - News and views about local writers - Jan McEwen and Liz Breslin 53:06

9M ago53:06

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News and views about local writers - This month Beverly chats with the exec director of the Michel King Writers' Centre, Jan McEwen, about the beautiful Signalman's Cottage in Devonport where the Centre is based, the various writers' residencies the Centre offers, along with the wider opportunities to also stay and write there as a visiting writer.…

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Write On: 'Land of Bad' Director/Co-Writer William Eubank 28:32

9M ago28:32

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"You want to write stuff you want to see, that's the key. Just write something new something fresh, something interesting," says director and co-writer William Eubank of Land of Bad, the new intense, action-packed movie about a Delta Force team that gets ambushed in enemy territory. Final Draft sat down with Eubank to talk about his writing process…

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Write On: 'Lawmen: Bass Reeves' Showrunner Chad Feehan 26:53

9M ago26:53

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“I grew up as a huge fan of Westerns but the reality of the landscape at the time was that it was incredibly diverse. And we've rarely seen that diversity on screen. I feel incredibly fortunate and humbled by the opportunity to show what life was really like in Indian territory in 1875. That it was a melting pot of cultures and races. It speaks to …

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Write On: 'Miller's Girl' Writer/director Jade Halley Bartlett 41:29

10M ago41:29

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“Personally, I think writing is bleeding. It's blood magic. It's very hard to do,” says writer/director Jade Halley Bartlett of the new Southern gothic romance, Miller’s Girl. Bartlett started her career as an actress, but it was an unexpected journey that led her to Los Angeles and magically landed her in the world of studio screenwriting. After s…

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Write On: 'American Fiction' Writer/Director Cord Jefferson 29:05

10M ago29:05

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“I think that approaching the grand things through the smallest entryways possible is the best way to go about taking on these massive issues… So yes, this movie is about race and racism and art and who's allowed to make certain kinds of art - these are really big, unwieldy issues. But the reason that I think people can relate to them –and it doesn…

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Write On: 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' Writers Chris Miller, Phil Lord and Dave Callaham 40:16

10M ago40:16

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“The lesson we keep learning is that the thing that breaks you [into Hollywood] is your weirdest idea. The thing that only you can write… All of our friends who have done that – it's been a fulcrum in their career,” says Phil Lord, co-writer of Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse. On today’s episode, I chat with Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Dav…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 10-01-2024 - For and about local writers - Dr April-Rose Geers and Kathryn Van Beek 49:51

10M ago49:51

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This month Beverly chats with UBS Emerging Writer in Residence, and poet-activist, Dr April-Rose Geers about the complex creative nonfiction memoir she will be working on while in Dunedin. Then, later in the show, Beverly chats with out-going 2023 Burns' Fellow Kathryn Van Beek who reflects on the highs, lows, challenges (and pressures) of this uni…

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Write On: 'Dumb Money' Writers Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo 37:23

10M ago37:23

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“When we were starting [to write screenplays], we were told, ‘Write your story, write your story, write your story.’ But our story is not that interesting. So, I would say, don't write your story necessarily, write the story that you fall in love with and find the human connection between you and the characters that you are depicting,” says Dumb Mo…

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Write On: 'Blackberry' Writers Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller 27:09

11M ago27:09

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Final Draft's Write On Podcast sits down with Blackberry writers Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller to talk about how they wrote this epic story of the rise and fall of the world's first portable email machine. Johnson and Miller loosely adapted the script from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff's book Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extra…

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Write On: 'The Iron Claw' Writer/Director Sean Durkin 34:19

11M ago34:19

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“I just really encourage people to truly go to those darker places because the way forward in dealing with dark material is not to do some partial version of it. Go there so that it sparks a truth to people watching it because people want to be moved. People want to see their experiences reflected in a new way back at them. If you're drawn to it an…

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Write On: 'Air' Screenwriter Alex Convey 39:43

11M ago39:43

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The film Air was released in theaters back in April – right before the WGA Writer's Strike. It tells the story of how the iconic partnership between Nike shoes and basketball player Michael Jordan came to be way back in 1984. It’s one of those partnerships that really wasn’t supposed to happen, but when it did, it changed the world of sports market…

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Write On: 'Saltburn' Writer Emerald Fennell 28:58

11M ago28:58

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“I like having sympathy for the devil. And all of them are devilish!” says Emerald Fennell about her characters in the new film Saltburn. Writer/director/actress Emerald Fennell dazzled us with 2020’s Promising Young Woman, for which she took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Now she’s back with Saltburn, a shocking romantic tragedy (or …

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Write On: 'Silo' Showrunner Graham Yost 37:30

11M ago37:30

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“It really comes down to scene work. Do these characters pop? Is this fun to read? Is it fun to imagine what’s going to happen next? When you get to the end of that pilot do you want to find out what’s going to happen in the next episode? It’s all of that,” says Graham Yost, showrunner for Silo on AppleTV+. You may not know the name Graham Yost, bu…

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Write On with Beverly Martens - 13-12-2023 - Interviewing Local Writers - Ian Dougherty and Anna Hoek-Sims 42:19

11M ago42:19

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Interviewing Local Writers - This month Beverly talks with regional historian and journalist Ian Dougherty, who has written over 30 books about local figures, families and organisations, including his latest updated book: The Steepest Street in the World... Baldwin Street here in Dunedin.This is followed by a chat with UBS's Retail Manager, Anna Ho…

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Write On: 'Napoleon' Writer David Scarpa 26:42

11M ago26:42

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“We can’t make Lawrence of Arabia anymore – not that that’s not a good movie, but it’s kind of a thing of the past,” says screenwriter David Scarpa about writing the script for Napoleon. Scarpa says both he and director Ridley Scott wanted to bring a freshness to the historical figure from our history books by, “Showing the more irreverent, dark, m…

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Write On: Writer Chris Hicks Talks Massive Sale of His Short Story 'I Am Not Alone' 41:42

11M ago41:42

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“My cardinal rule – the rule that you cannot break is: don't be boring. Because you can have the perfect script that follows every screenplay formatting rule, but if you're boring, it doesn't matter. First and foremost, you’ve got to hook the reader,” says screenplay and short story writer Chris Hicks. Hicks is the author of a short story called “I…

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Write On: 'Poor Things' Writer Tony McNamara 39:15

11M ago39:15

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“I don’t write sex scenes. I write character scenes and sometimes they’re having sex during their character scenes. It’s a beat about character,” says Tony McNamara. Known for the TV show The Great on Hulu and 2018’s The Favourite, screenwriter Tony McNamara’s new film is Poor Things, staring Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe with a genius performance fr…

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Write On: 'Candy Cane Lane' Writer Kelly Younger 36:02

12M ago36:02

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Eddie Murphy’s new holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane pokes fun at the idea of being super competitive during the Christmas decorating season. Kelly Younger sat down with Final Draft’s Write On podcast to talk about writing the spec script that became a reality in our latest episode. “My manager who I've had for years always sort of keeping track of my…

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