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Not every movie or show gets a reunion reboot or legacy sequel. Sometimes we can feel the influence of the past, but with an additional twist. These are the spiritual successors. They may not always be obvious in what stories they owe a debt to, but you feel the connection.
Back in 2010, John answered a question about second guessing yourself and deciding what sample to send to a producer if you think your work doesn't match their taste.
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Likeability. The idea that there's some objective sense of whether or not this person is someone you could be friends with/grab a beer with/watch for 90 minutes on a screen without getting annoyed. It's not just a measurement of morality, because there are plenty
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We touched on coincidences in storytelling with this week's rebroadcast of John's blog on Spider-Man 3, so let's take a broader look at coincidences both in fiction and how people experience them in the real world. Lisa M.P. Munoz interviews Christian Rominger about
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In 2007, John came back from a screening of Spider-Man 3 and used his reactions to point to the hurdles a writer can throw in their story's path when relying too heavily on coincidence.
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This weekâs rebroadcast collects posts from 2006 and 2012 to consider how selling a script isnât a guarantee, and why writing a film that never gets made is still work worthy of compensation. Youâve said that âmost scripts donât become movies, and a hundred things could
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This weekâs rebroadcast brings together a few posts about structure, and reasons to consider that thereâs not only one way to plan out a story. How do you know when the story has good bones? Iâm a 28-year old writer with a very old problem. I do
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If spoilers make you want to nope on out of here⊠Thatâs fine. You should see Nope before you read this. âRight here, you are going to witness an absolute spectacle.â The engine driving Jordan Peele's Nope is powered by people trying to exploit an unexplained organism
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When helping to build Mad Max: Fury Roadâs character arcs for Max and Furiosa, screenwriter Nico Lathouris saw how three chases could bind the characters together: âThe first chase brings the Road Warrior [Max] and the Praetorian [Furiosa] together, the second chase manacles them together in mutual obligation, and
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This post contains spoilers. Donât let that scare you off. Youâve likely seen all these movies, but even if you havenât, knowing how a movie ends shouldnât detract from the pleasure of watching a movie. Think about it: how many people skip out on Star Wars
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The Simpsons episode âMarge vs. the Monorailâ doesnât feature any flesh-eating ghouls. But it does offer examples for writing zombies of another kind: people stuck in a mob mentality. When local billionaire C. Montgomery Burns pays a $3 million fine for burying nuclear waste around Springfield, a town meeting
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In the film Galaxy Quest, Jason Nesmith and the rest of the cast of the Star Trek-like series Galaxy Quest are forced to travel into space for real. An alien race called the Thermians mistake broadcasts of the show for âhistorical documentsâ about the crew of the NSEA Protector. So