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Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. Today we're talking about the 2002 film

Minority Report, and I am joined by the

Lessons from the Screenplay team, writer Trisha Arand. Hello, everybody. Writer Brian Bittner.

Hello. And editor Alex Kayeros. Hi. So Brian, Minority Report was all you. It was your idea.

Why did you want to talk about Minority Report? Well, actually, I would argue you wanted to

talk about Minority Report from a list of like just a bunch of movies I gave you a long time ago

and you pointed that one out. And I thought, Minority Report, I don't know if that's really a

screenwritery movie. Like, I don't know what I would want to talk about. And then I started thinking,

I guess world building because that's the most interesting thing about minority part is the world.

And then when I started doing research, I realized that there was this middle screenplay.

There was Philip K. Dick's book and then John Cohen's script and then Scott Frank's script.

And they had spoken a lot about the things that they changed, the things that didn't make sense about the book. And the more I looked into it, the more I realized that I could sort of like

make a hybrid video that was about that process, but also about world building because the things

they changed made the world make more sense and made the sort of ending more satisfying,

et cetera, et cetera. So it was just sort of, just sort of a process of

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