17 | Screenwriting As A Career (+ WGA Questions) w/ Jonathan Fernandez
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm Lorraine McKenna. We are |
| 0:05.2 | professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked |
| 0:09.1 | on studio and indie films, live action, and animation, from my work on Inside Out and |
| 0:13.8 | Captain Marvel. To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out. |
| 0:17.9 | We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the lights had a not only |
| 0:24.0 | survive the ups and downs but thrive. We want to help you become the best |
| 0:27.8 | screenwriter you can be and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey guys welcome to today's show. |
| 0:34.2 | We are so excited to be here with you. |
| 0:37.0 | I've had a long week, I don't even know why, |
| 0:38.9 | but it just feels long. |
| 0:41.1 | And hanging out with Lorian and our guest today was what I was really |
| 0:44.8 | looking forward to. Today our topic is screenwriting as a career which I'm |
| 0:50.4 | really interested in hearing about. We took questions on the Facebook page and have a guest to help us answer them. |
| 0:58.0 | Our guest is Jonathan Fernandez. Jonathan is an amazing human who I've known for years. I'm so lucky. He |
| 1:06.4 | started his career in Hollywood as Roger Corman's assistant and left as |
| 1:11.2 | president of Rogers Company. |
| 1:13.4 | He went on to work for legendary producer Dino de Laurentis |
| 1:17.4 | and was the executive producer of the Kurt Russell film Breakdown, |
| 1:21.8 | a number one hit at the box office, by the way. |
| 1:25.3 | Jonathan has written features for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and Sony, as well as |
| 1:29.9 | television pilots for NBC, ABC, CBS, and now Peacock. |
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