Write On: A Screenwriting Podcast
1) Write On: 'The Long Walk' Screenwriter JT Mollner
"I didn't think I'd be a good fit as a writer if they were going to do a PG version of the story. That's not where my strength lies, so the great thing is that the version Francis [Lawrence, the direc...Show More
2) Write On: 'Hedda' Writer/Director Nia DaCosta
"I love adaptations. The beauty of adaptation, especially a classic, like Shakespeare and Chekhov or Ibsen, they're such a gift because they give you this beautiful framework, and it's almost like the...Show More
3) Write On: 'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' Creator/Writer Derek Kolstad
“As you do draft after draft, it becomes shorter and rendered down. And [Keanu Reeves and I] would go through scenes going, ‘Can people say less? Can the action be tighter? Can the action sequence be ...Show More
4) Write On: 'After the Hunt' Writer Nora Garrett
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” –Otto Von Bismarck “It's funny, because when I was writing After the Hunt, I definitely wasn't like, ‘Oh, I want to wr...Show More
5) Write On: 'Anemone' Co-Writer/Director Ronan Day-Lewis
“[My dad] really started to inhabit the characters, especially Ray, speaking as him during the writing process. That was when I realized this was going to be its own kind of special beast. Working wit...Show More
6) Write On: 'All Of You' Writer/Director Will Bridges & Writer/Actor Brett Goldstein
“You have to love all your characters. Even if you're writing a bad guy. You, the writer, have to write them with love and empathy, and treat each character, give each character, a full life and a ful...Show More
7) Write On: 'Mussolini: Son of the Century' Director Joe Wright
On today’s episode, we speak with director Joe Wright whose new limited TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century, explores fascism through the early political career of Italy’s Prime Minister Mussolini...Show More
8) Write On: 'The Toxic Avenger' Writer/Director Macon Blair
“The thing that started it all off was me saying [the character Toxie] should be a guy in a suit. In other words, let’s not do a computer-generated creature, let’s have a person in a suit and have tha...Show More
9) Write On: 'Sirens' Creator/Showrunner Molly Smith Metzler
“Our goal in writing [Sirens] was to write something that makes you think, and offers the opportunity to re-examine your own assumptions that you made about these characters. And it's taxing. We ask s...Show More
10) Write On: 'The Home' Director/Co-Writer James DeMonaco and Co-Writer Adam Cantor
“Write your own anxieties. Get into your own psyche. I think if it scares you – like, I'm terrified of guns, and that's where The Purge came from. But here, there were various generational fears and w...Show More