586 - Against Vagina Monsters
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig welcome back writer/producer/director Aline Brosh McKenna ahead of her feature directorial debut “Your Place Or Mine.” Aline discusses how tech has changed Hollywood and finding new creative challenges.
We also talk about streaming news, platform mergers, and follow up on script consultants. Megana asks about professional ambitions and we answer listener questions on firing agents and staffing while pregnant.
In our bonus segment for premium members, we go behind the scenes of Episode 3 of The Last of Us and force Craig to answer the question on everyone’s mind: what games did Bill and Frank play together?
Links:
- Watch Your Place or Mine on Netflix at 12:01am on 2/10/23
- Showtime and Paramount+ Merging, With Rebrand Planned
- ‘Westworld’ Gets New Home As Warner Bros. Discovery Strikes Roku & Tubi FAST Channel Deals
- Cancellations Of Completed Seasons Of TV Series; Experts Weigh In On Whether Trend Will Continue
- Salem 1692 Game
- Nuun Hydration Tablets
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- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Aline Brosh McKenna on Twitter and Instagram
- Craig Mazin on Twitter
- John August on Twitter
- John on Instagram
- John on Mastodon
- Outro by Nico Mansy (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. My name is John Auguste. My name is Craig Mason and this episode |
| 0:07.6 | 586 of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:14.0 | Today in the show, we welcome back one of our earliest and most frequent guests, |
| 0:18.1 | Alene and Bosch McKetta, who has just made her feature directing debut. |
| 0:21.7 | Hey, Alene. Welcome back, Joan Rivers of Scriptness. |
| 0:26.4 | I've been doing a lot of interviews, so I've answered to every kind of name. |
| 0:30.2 | So I got Alene, I got Alene, I got Bosch, I got McKetta. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm answering to everything these days. |
| 0:39.6 | If people listened to script notes, they would know their names Alene. |
| 0:41.9 | I do like Alene Bosch. That's pretty great. I might start talking to you. |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah, that's good stuff. |
| 0:47.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:49.1 | We have now all directed future films. |
| 0:50.9 | Yes, yes, that's great. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, we're going to talk about future films and make some making and all that stuff. |
| 0:57.7 | We've got a lot of TV stuff to talk through and I just really enlist our questions. |
| 1:01.4 | So we'll get into it. |
| 1:02.3 | But, Alene, I would propose that in our bonus segment, |
| 1:06.0 | you and I can interrogate Craig about this third episode of The Last of Us, |
| 1:10.1 | which we just watched the record this week ahead of time. |
| 1:12.8 | And I also want to dig into Craig's inescusable decision not to have Bill and Frank |
| 1:17.6 | do any jigsaw puzzles during their years in isolation. |
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