584 - Adapting Your Own Novel
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins us to discuss her journey adapting her bestselling novel “Fleishman Is in Trouble” into an acclaimed limited series. We chat about drawing inspiration from the familiar, learning how manage others, and presenting multiple sides to a story.
We also answer listener questions about naming characters, decorative dialogue, and the renaissance of the television half-hour.
In our bonus segment for premium members, we dig into the art and structure of the celebrity profile, a genre in which Taffy is herself an expert.
Links:
- Fleishman Is in Trouble on Hulu, and the book
- Taffy’s GQ Celebrity Profiles
- This Film Does Not Exist By Frank Pavich for NYT, Tron reimagined by AI in the style of Jodorowsky’s Dune, images by Midjourney
- This Voice Doesn’t Exist – Generative Voice AI
- VALL-E Neural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers
- Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois
- Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!
- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Twitter
- Craig Mazin on Twitter
- John August on Twitter
- John on Instagram
- Outro by Ryan Gerberding (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:03.1 | My name is John August and this episode 584 of Script Notes, a podcast about screen |
| 0:07.4 | writing and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:10.3 | Today on the show, let's imagine you are the best selling novel. |
| 0:13.6 | Everyone wants to turn your book into a movie or TV series, but you decide, no, you really |
| 0:16.9 | want to do it yourself. |
| 0:18.4 | How would you even begin? |
| 0:20.1 | On the show today, we have someone who faced that exact scenario and absolutely killed it. |
| 0:24.1 | Tavibird S. Arachner is the writer of Fleischmann is in trouble, both the book and the limited |
| 0:28.0 | series and how she's showing us welcome Taffy. |
| 0:30.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:31.8 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:33.1 | I watched your show and immediately knew that I wanted you on, you've done so much press |
| 0:37.9 | and publicity for this and I'm sure you're absolutely exhaustive. |
| 0:41.1 | We'll talk about some different things that I think you probably talked about on Nage |
| 0:43.7 | or other 19 podcasts, interviews, the week. |
| 0:47.1 | The week, I hope. |
| 0:48.1 | And it's Monday. |
| 0:49.1 | This week. |
| 0:50.1 | It's just, it's only Monday. |
| 0:52.5 | I want to get into like how this became a book and then became a series. |
| 0:56.0 | But I also want to look at characters and sort of, I've really dig into what characters |
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