Write On: 'Blackberry' Writers Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller
Final Draft's Write On Podcast sits down with Blackberry writers Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller to talk about how they wrote this epic story of the rise and fall of the world's first portable email m...
22 Dec 202327min
Write On: 'The Iron Claw' Writer/Director Sean Durkin
"I just really encourage people to truly go to those darker places because the way forward in dealing with dark material is not to do some partial version of it. Go there so that it sparks a truth to ...
21 Dec 202334min
Write On: 'Air' Screenwriter Alex Convey
The film Air was released in theaters back in April – right before the WGA Writer's Strike. It tells the story of how the iconic partnership between Nike shoes and basketball player Michael Jordan cam...
20 Dec 202339min
Write On: 'Saltburn' Writer Emerald Fennell
"I like having sympathy for the devil. And all of them are devilish!" says Emerald Fennell about her characters in the new film Saltburn. Writer/director/actress Emerald Fennell dazzled us with 2020's...
19 Dec 202328min
Write On: 'Silo' Showrunner Graham Yost
"It really comes down to scene work. Do these characters pop? Is this fun to read? Is it fun to imagine what's going to happen next? When you get to the end of that pilot do you want to find out what'...
15 Dec 202337min
Write On: 'Napoleon' Writer David Scarpa
"We can't make Lawrence of Arabia anymore – not that that's not a good movie, but it's kind of a thing of the past," says screenwriter David Scarpa about writing the script for Napoleon. Scarpa says b...
12 Dec 202326min
Write On: Writer Chris Hicks Talks Massive Sale of His Short Story 'I Am Not Alone'
"My cardinal rule – the rule that you cannot break is: don't be boring. Because you can have the perfect script that follows every screenplay formatting rule, but if you're boring, it doesn't matter. ...
7 Dec 202341min
Write On: 'Poor Things' Writer Tony McNamara
"I don't write sex scenes. I write character scenes and sometimes they're having sex during their character scenes. It's a beat about character," says Tony McNamara. Known for the TV show The Great on...
6 Dec 202339min
