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Write On: Long Bright River Showrunner Nikki Toscano
“With an adaptation, you can never give back your first read. So, what are you taking away? What fills your soul? Why do you want to tell this story? And then that becomes sort of the North Star. And I’m tethered more by that North Star than by the a...
‘House of David’: Bringing an Ancient Story to Today’s Audience
Filmed on location in Greece over five months, Prime Video’s new TV show, House of David, takes us back 3,000 years to tell the story of the biblical figure David (Michael Iskander), who not only defeats a giant named Goliath (Martyn Ford), but rises...
Write On: Comedy Writing with Brent Forrester
“My recommendation to anybody who is writing animation is to take advantage of the things you can do in animation that you can’t do in live action, which is to spend an infinite amount of money, right? If you and I are going to write a scene and you ...
What Editing Can You Teach You About Screenwriting
There’s a cliché in Hollywood that a film is made three times: once on the page in the form of a screenplay, the second time is on set when it’s shot with the director and actors, and the third time is in the editing bay. While any filmmaker can argu...
Write On: 'The Performance' Co-Writer Josh Salzberg
“Fugler [Robert Carlyle] was a character that I really connected with from the beginning. I know it sounds a little strange that the Nazi was my way into this, but it really was that idea of, ‘How can we get inside his head and make sure that he’s a ...
Write On: 'Inside Out 2' Co-Writers Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein
“People think sequels are easier, and I’m like, ‘No, no, it’s much harder. It is much harder to write.’ They have never written sequels, those people, because you need to do everything as well as the first and yet better, and go to new places, follow...
Write On: 'The Boys' Creator and Showrunner Eric Kripke
“The most subversive thing this show could do is make you cry… If you really boil down television, really cook it in the pan, it’s the character business. I’m in the character business. Movies are in the plot and spectacle business, for television, t...
Write On: 'Conclave' Screenwriter Peter Straughan
“If everything’s being played on the surface, it’s very hard to make that character come to life. You want hinterland, you want subtext. You want the things that are buried, the things that we don’t know about them, the things that maybe they don’t k...