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Write On: 'Fallout' Co-Creator & Showrunner Graham Wagner

August 15, 2024

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...

Write On 'Cobra Kai' Showrunners Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg

July 19, 2024

“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...

Write On: 'Inside Out 2' Co-Writer Dave Holstein

June 14, 2024

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...

Write On: 'Ezra' Writer Tony Spiridakis

May 28, 2024

“From Robert De Niro, I learned not to force anything. Not to force your idea of how something should be and then go from there. Not, ‘Oh, this should be funny,’ or ‘Oh, I'm going make you cry.’ That's the wrong thing. You just need to think about th...