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Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

I'm Meg Lofov, and today I'm joined by Ryan Johnson, a two-time Academy Award and Golden

Globe nominated filmmaker, known for telling bold, distinctive stories across an incredible range

of genres. His films include Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and Star Wars The Last Jedi. Through

his company, T Street, with creative partner Rom Bergman, Ryan also co-created and executive produced the hit Emmy-nominated series Poker Face and executive produced the sci-fi series Three Body Problem.

His latest film, Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery, is the third installment in the beloved who done at murder mystery franchise and is now streaming on Netflix.

I am so thrilled and a huge fan to have Ryan Johnson here. So Ryan, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me. Ryan's been a good sport and he's going to do our first segment, which is Adventures in Screenwriting or How Was Your Week? I'll start really quickly. My week was still writing. Yes,

we're getting towards the holidays, but I am, you know, pages are due. And we had so many

balls in the air. I don't know. Ryan, I'm saying this to the master of balls in the air. So I say

this with a small caveat, not as many as you.

But then we were trying to work in a rewrite, my writing partner and I, that honestly,

we forgot one of the balls completely, which is the antagonist.

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