289 | Crafting A High Concept Pixar Film w/ Hoppers Writer Jesse Andrews
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. |
| 0:02.0 | It's an unusual name. |
| 0:03.0 | Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. |
| 0:07.0 | What game are we playing today? |
| 0:09.0 | Discover the origins. |
| 0:10.0 | It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me. |
| 0:12.0 | Of crime's most iconic mind. |
| 0:14.0 | There has been a break-in. |
| 0:17.0 | Astoned. You should be a detective. |
| 0:19.0 | Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. |
| 0:22.6 | If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. |
| 0:25.6 | Young Sherlock, new original series, watch now only on Prime Video. |
| 0:29.6 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg LaFove. |
| 0:32.6 | Today we're joined by novelist and screenwriter Jesse Andrews. |
| 0:36.6 | Jesse studied art history at Harvard, |
| 0:38.6 | and it wasn't until after college that he found writing. His first film, he adapted from his first novel, |
| 0:44.7 | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. The film won the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance, |
| 0:50.4 | where it premiered in 2015. He then transitioned to animation, co-writing the gorgeous film Luca with Mike Jones. |
| 0:57.6 | His latest Pixar piece, Hoppers, is in theaters now. |
| 1:00.9 | It's a sci-fi animated adventure following an animal lover named Maple, whose mind |
| 1:05.5 | is transferred into a lifelike robotic beaver so she can communicate with animals and save |
| 1:10.6 | their habitat from destruction. |
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