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a Charles Austin company. It is the first and only episode of the podcast. Welcome to episode one.

All right, this is session one for a unnamed horror script.

This has already been approved by the EP over at Risco Pictures.

I am stating my name for the record.

I am Clover Sorkin.

Doctor, if you want to state your name as well for the record.

Yeah, I am Dr. D.R. Scream. Obviously, that's a pen name. Uh, but I am a real doctor. I have an honorary doctorate in screenwriting from Thrill's and Chills University, which is a very active subreddit.

Um, I chose Dr. Scream to help me in the initial stages of workshopping this untitled screenplay.

You know, I really do appreciate this opportunity to work on an unnamed horror script like this.

You know, it really doesn't have much of a product to it here. But really, that's what I got Dr. Scream for here. We're doing the first session to start a hammer out this project and what it'll look like. And then we'll get going on the main script here. Doctor, thanks so much for being here. I'm glad that, you know, over at Risco Studios, they were able to approve you coming along and helping me with this.

Yeah, I'm glad they handed us a blank check for an idea where you don't actually know what the idea is yet.

It's very generous of them.

Well, we have some stipulations.

It has to be a horror movie.

So in terms of, you know, what's hot right now, horror movies are huge. I mean,

I don't have to tell you, Dr. Scream. But horror movies right now are the top of the budget.

They're pulling in a ton of money. Really, one of the only forms that are getting kind of big

budget. We've already been cleared for 60 mil, but that's contingent on the script getting done. We could get bumped up to 120. Yeah, like you're saying, we have a lot of money behind this. You don't have to tell me twice that horror movies are big right now. 15 years ago, I was going by Dr. D.R. superhero, but I kind of missed that train. And I decided to change the pen name to DR

scream because I know where the money is right now. And it's right here. We're on top of it. We got this thing. We're fishing for this thing. We got this thing on the hook. We just got to come up with a killer idea. We just got to come up with a killer idea. Yeah, that's all we're waiting for now. I think, too, we can't go small with this.

We are going big. We need to have a character that is on the level of a Chucky or a

Freddy Krueger. Exactly. Exactly. You know, explicitly when I was pitching the idea of

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