Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.

Today we are talking about Coraline, the 2009 film directed by Henry Selleck, written by

Henry Selleck based on the book by Neil Gaiman.

I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, Trisha Rand.

Hello, everybody.

Brian Bittner. Hello, everybody. Brian Bittner.

Hello, hello.

And Alex Cayetos.

Hi.

So, Coraline is a movie that I hadn't seen, really.

I think Alex, once you had done a screening 10 years ago or something when we first moved

to L.A., and I watched part of it, I think, but hadn't really thought about it since then.

And Trisha, you brought it up as a potentially fun movie to talk about and had kind of a really

interesting pitch about it as far as like how it borrows from these ancient forms of storytelling,

which is, of course, what our lessons from screenplay video is about.

Why do you love Coraline?

I assume you love it.

And what kind of made you make this connection with the ancient forms of storytelling

that it borrows from?

First of all, there's a lot of things to love about Coraline.

And I pitched a video on it because I didn't want to do an actual scary movie for

Halloween. So I kind of was just like, let me get this children's kind of creepy thing in here

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