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Write On with 'The Beta Test' Writer-Directors Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe

November 5, 2021

In The Beta Test, a married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data. Writer-Director Jim Cummings tells Write On: "I had the idea f...

Write On with ‘Last Night in Soho’ Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Writer-Director Edgar Wright

November 3, 2021

The latest film from director Edgar Wright is about an aspiring fashion designer who is mysteriously able to enter 1960s London. Wright tells Write On: "[I started] having daydreams about being a kind of cultural time traveler, about how great it wou...

Write On with 'There's Someone Inside Your House' Writer Henry Gayden

October 31, 2021

There’s Someone Inside Your House is a Netflix horror movie based on the YA novel by Stephanie Perkins. Shazam! writer Henry Gayden adapted the book and talks to Write On about tackling the horror genre and injecting it with emotion: "I've always lik...

Write On with ‘Colin in Black & White’ Showrunner Michael Starrbury

October 29, 2021

The Netflix drama series created by Ava DuVernay and famed football player Colin Kaepernick explores Kaepernick's high school years and the experiences that led him to become an activist. Showrunner Michael Starrbury talked to Write On about how the ...

Write On with 'Chucky' Writer Kim Garland

October 21, 2021

Chucky is back! Everyone’s favorite killer doll is soon to have his own TV series on SYFY, and writer Kim Garland talked to Write On about what it took to get on the writing staff: “I sat down one weekend, and I watched all seven films in a row, just...

Write On with Black Boy Writes Founder and 'Insecure' Writer Mike Gauyo

October 19, 2021

Mike talks to Write On about his work as a mentor and the founding of his organization Black Boy Writes: "I have 11 mentees; they're all great, and they all span different genres. [We're] just breaking that myth that Black people are monolithic, we c...

Write On with 'You' Showrunner Sera Gamble

October 15, 2021

Sera talks about the latest season of the hit Netflix series starring Penn Badgley as the obsessive and murderous Joe Goldberg: "We [gave] ourselves total permission to go in a new direction. This is not one of those premises that you can repeat in t...

Write On with 'One Day at a Time' Showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett

October 14, 2021

Gloria talks to Write On about her process for choosing a writers’ room. "For One Day at a Time, we wanted a heavily Latino room because we were doing Latinx storylines, and we wanted to make sure that we were specific because it was a Cuban family, ...

Write On with 'Dopesick' Creator Danny Strong

October 12, 2021

The Hulu series starring Michael Keaton takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction. Creator Danny Strong talks about putting the show together in the midst of the pandemic: "One of the ways that I dealt with [having a ...