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The Writers Panel

Eric Heisserer

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Movies, Writing, Screenwriting, Tv, Hollywood

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The screenwriter of Arrival talks about the decade-long process of bringing that story to the screen, hard hat jobs he's worked on including the remake/prequel of The Thing, his directorial debut, Hours, and more.


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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:07.3

They do.

0:09.4

Amazon has over 2 million listings for collectibles and memorabilia for non-collectors,

0:13.7

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0:17.8

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0:26.2

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0:33.5

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0:40.1

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0:47.8

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0:49.9

You just search for Antman, Scott Lang, but go to Amazon.com Nerdist and then poke around and see what you can find out.

0:57.4

Basically, anytime you use Amazon, do it through Amazon.com slash nerdist.

1:02.5

And it helps out all of the podcast you love.

1:07.2

Thanks to Amazon, not just for sponsoring the show, but for allowing me to not have to leave my house to go shopping.

1:15.6

Greetings, Adventure Ceteers. It's me, Wirtju's player, Hal Lublin. You may have heard rumors of the thrilling adventure hours doing a holiday show at the theater at the Ace Hotel in LA on December 17th. Those rumors are true.

1:27.7

And what you may not have heard is that that December 17th show is our final show before

1:32.2

going on an indefinite hiatus.

1:34.3

Yep.

1:35.3

That December 17th show at the Ace will be the last new Beyond Belief, the last new sparks

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