Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lofov.

And I'm Lorian McKenna. And today we're honored to be joined by one of Hollywood's most prolific and versatile storytellers, Akeva Goldsman.

Akiva is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director. He won the adapted screenplay Oscar

for A Beautiful Mind, and his work spans blockbusters we love, like Batman Forever, I Am Legend,

and The Da Vinci Code, as well as intimate dramas and prestige television. He's also been instrumental

in reinventing Star Trek with Picard, Strange New Worlds, and Discovery.

His ability to navigate both massive IP and intimate adaptations has made him one of the most versatile writers working today. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. It's exciting to be here. I mean, I'm not technically there. I'm really here,

but I'm excited to be here, there. There. Zooming.

Yes, zooming. We are so excited to have you here, there. There. Zooming. Yes. Zooming.

We are so excited to have you here, huge, huge fans.

I already let you know I'm a little, we're a little starstruck, but we will muscle through.

But before we dive into your brain and all of your amazing craft insights, we want to talk about our week or what we call Adventures in Screenwriting.

Laurean, you go first. So how was your week? So I had a good week. It was a hard week, though.

I did some voice acting and I got paid for it and I got positive feedback. And forgot how much I loved that the you know voice

acting and getting paid and then getting the validation and just that little bit of you know

great reading on that line kind of kept me going for the rest of the day and that's and then I'm

also working on developing some feature projects with people that I

really admire and have fun working with.

And, you know, they like my ideas and are telling me that.

And again, that feels like exciting.

And I'm realizing that this whole working by myself thing without any collaboration is really

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