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Write On: Seth Sherwood Horror Masterclass
“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 ...
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Write On: 'Hysteria!' Creator and Showrunner Matthew Scott Kane
“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 ...
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Write On: 'Pachinko' Showrunner Soo Hugh
“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 s...
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Write On: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Writers Al Gough and Miles Millar
“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 simplicit...
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Write On: 'Sunny' Co-Creator & Showrunner Katie Robbins
“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 enti...
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Write On: 'Fallout' Co-Creator & Showrunner Graham Wagner
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 an...
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Write On 'Cobra Kai' Showrunners Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg
“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 happene...
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Write On: 'A Family Affair' Writer Carrie Solomon
“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 relationshi...
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Write On: 'Inside Out 2' Co-Writer Dave Holstein
In this episode of Final Draft's Write On podcast, we 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 emoti...
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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