You Can't Make This Script Up

We're back, babyyy!

June 22, 2021 Season 1 Episode 16
You Can't Make This Script Up
We're back, babyyy!
Show Notes

Our unplanned hiatus is OVER and we are ready to RAMBLE! Err... rumble?

  • Screenwriting competitions, festivals, fellowships
  • Spreadsheets are our savior. (Even if Caitlin is a psycho about it!)
  • Reflecting on our pre-2021 episodes and our predictions and excitement (Inauguration fashion, Disney+ Marvel shows!)
  • Amazon buys MGM for $8 Billion
  • Wizard of Oz sequels - Return to OZ (1985)
  • John Chu - Director (Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights, Wicked)
  • Our college days in NYC circa 2007-2012 and theater school antics at AMDA
  • Anthony Ramos - actor and AMDA alum (Hamilton, In The Heights)
  • Acting school tries to make every student a “blank slate” but ends up making everyone homogenous when what usually gets you the job is the thing that makes you stick out from the crowd!
  • Originating a role versus replacing a role in theater
  • Tick, Tick… BOOM! Movie musical trailer. Directed by Lin Manuel Miranda. 
  • Andrew Garfield - actor (The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Under the Silverlake, Spider-Man, The Social Network)
  • *Disney+ SPOILERS* and our collective freak out on Disney’s Shareholder Day announcements
  • Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni doing the most (and the best) at LucasFilms.
  • Daniel Brühl - actor (Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Alienist)
  • Loki, Disney+ series starring Tom Hiddleston
  • Brit’s vision for an indie superhero movie a la Logan (2017)
  • Brie Larson - actor (Captain Marvel, Room) who is prepping for Captain Marvel 2 with celebrity trainer, Jason Walsh (Rise Movement and Rise Nation - our favorite cardio class in LA!)
  • Jurassic World sequel - Bryce Dallas Howard (actor) & Colin Trevorrow (writer/director)
  • NOTE: Caitlin calls people by their first names simply because she is lazy. These people are ~ not ~ her friends.
  • Dax Shepard’s podcast - Arm Chair Expert, Kerri Russel, and our love of JJ Abrams
  • Pacific Palisades - JJ and Caitlin are from the same small town that has recently been dramatically renovated by developer, Rick Caruso
  • Pitching! Our two recent pitches - one project to a studio and the other for an OWA at a major production company
  • Our career coach, Lee Jessup
  • Questions everyone in Hollywood asks about your project: 1. Why are you the person to tell this story? And 2. Why now?
  • Adapting a real life event - what about this makes it a movie and not a documentary?
  • No matter how specific a story, audiences need an emotional journey to connect to that makes the project feel universal
  • Open Writing Assignment - screenwriting work for hire
  • A brief interlude on music licensing in podcasting
  • General meetings - we’ll cover that soon
  • Tent Pole Intellectual Property - example: Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Star Wars
  • ISA - International Screenwriting Association
  • Kill Your Darlings
  • Brit’s SKIMS obsession is real. We sidebar to discuss our favorite Kardashians.
  • Caitlin’s recent TV binges: Shrill on Hulu and Peaky Blinders on Netflix
  • Lindy West’s book - Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
  • Our DMs are open! (Not THAT way. Or maybe…)