Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

Oh, my name is Craig Mason.

And this is episode 736 of Script Notes.

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

Today on the show, we welcome back returning champion, Aline Brosh McKenna,

whose latest film The Devil Wears Prada 2 is not only a critical hit and box office smash, it asks timely questions about art and human labor and the world in we live in. Aline, welcome back. Aw, thanks. We're on camera. Victory lap, Aline. But we've done about an hour of HMU, right? We did about an hour of work.

Absolutely.

I really want to be able to do it.

I just, there's nothing there.

Yeah, we just did a lot of hair makeup.

Thanks, guys.

By the way, your hair does look great.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know who's doing it, but.

Did a little Dyson Air wrap for you guys. Oh, that's so nice. You dice and air wrap for us? I even know what that is. Because Obama was... As did I. I want to talk about your film and its journey because I remember sitting with you at Great White on Largemont talking through like this might be a thing we end up doing. You might seem stunned. I'm still stunned. Yeah, stunned. It happened. So we'll talk through what happened there. Craig, I want to talk about your movie, The Sheep Detectives, which was also delightful.

Thank you. Two of my friends have great movies out in the theaters right now. I just feel very lucky. And combined, it's a lot of box office. It's a lot of box off. Combined, together, we are so powerful. There's overlap. There's definitely audience overlap.

It's very female audiences.

And we are, from what I understand,

and we'll find out if this is true or not, but we're only dropping like 33% from our first weekend. So that's, you know, it's a nice hold for the sheep. But obviously, we're not, you know, I walked through when I went to the mini premiere, we had a mini premiere for the sheet movie in New York, and I get off the plane, and I'm walking through JFK, and I'm like, did Devil Wars ProDube just buy JFK? I mean, it was everywhere. And then as we were driving to our little mini premiere, we passed the setup for the Devil Warriors Prada 2. Because it was like, it was in Lincoln Center. You know, I'm so used to being a side dish, like the side dishiest of all side dishes. Like, I'm used to being like the little movie that could that people are like, well, I love this project. Right. Yes. I'm currently in that position. I love this project. And so to have something that was like marketed like a Marvel movie, my brain

every day is like, where did they sell it? There's tweezers. There's three types of dolls.

Yeah. Oh, tweezers. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Sweezerman went in heavy. Every kind of merch you could human,

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