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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Pixar's Hoppers writer, Jesse Andrews, joins Meg to dive into all things Pixar process. They start with Jesse's intriguing journey into writing, from Art History in college to novels to adapting his novel (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl), to animation with his first film, Luca. Then, they talk shop and craft through the lens of the recent fantastically hilarious, high concept, Hoppers. Jesse's collaborative spirit is on full display throughout and really instills the reasoning behind why leaving ego at the door is the key to creating. --- Looking for more support on your writing journey? Join Meg and Lorien inside ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TSL Workshops⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Episode Links: Check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TSL merch shop⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TSL on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Screenwriting Life is produced and edited by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alex Alcheh.⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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