Hey, this is John. A standard warning for people who are in the car with their kids.

There's some swearing in this episode.

Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you're listening to Episode 713 of Script Notes.

It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interested in to screenwriters.

Often on this podcast, we speak with writers who have decades of experience in the industry.

And while there's definitely wisdom to begin there,

it's perhaps not so relevant to listeners who are just getting started in the business

as it operates now in 2025.

So today on the show, we are talking with a writing team who graduated from Loyola,

Merrimount in 2018, and then went through a variety of jobs both inside and outside the industry.

This year, their first film debuted,

K-pop Demon Hunters,

was a worldwide phenomenon top of the Netflix charts,

culturally inescapable, for a while this summer.

Welcome and congratulations to

Daniel Jimenez and Hannah McMacken,

our guests on Scream Notes.

Welcome, guys.

Thank you. Thank you. So I'm excited to talk with you about your journey from film school to now, because it's much more recent than a lot of other guests have been. But also, just the process of going from like, I was, I'm in film school to now I'm being paid to write to I now have a thing coming out in in the world where people can see. I want to talk about day jobs.

I want to talk about like moments where you kind of thought about giving up. I want to talk

about collaboration and ensure your process of working together. And in our bonus statement of

premium members, I want to talk about what Hollywood gets wrong about Gen Z

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