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The Writers Panel

Jon Spaihts

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode from the vault, Ben talks to screenwriter and comic book scribe Jon Spaihts (Doctor Strange, Prometheus, Passengers).


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0:00.0

Forever!

0:02.6

Dog!

0:03.8

Hi, folks, we got an episode from The Vault today.

0:07.3

This was a conversation that I had with screenwriter John Spate, who wrote Prometheus and Dr. Strange.

0:16.6

Since then, he's written Passengers, The Mummy, he's writing the Dune adaptation, Justice League Dark.

0:23.7

He's writing a ton of things.

0:25.2

But at this point, it was really the conversation was focused on Dr. Strange.

0:32.6

This was originally released as part of the Nerdist Comics panel, the show I used to do.

0:37.1

That was a spinoff of the writer's panel, which has now transformed into the comic

0:43.2

book commentary, which if you like behind-the-scenes stuff, which if you're listening to

0:47.7

the writers panel, you do, and you read comic books, which maybe you do, go check out

0:53.4

comic book commentary in which writers of comic books, which maybe you do, go check out comic book commentary in which

0:55.4

writers of comic books do a commentary for an issue that has come out the day that we

1:02.4

released the podcast. We've had a bunch of great people already. Kelly Thompson, Joe Henderson,

1:09.6

Sina Grace, me, basically going through an issue of the comic

1:14.8

and just talking about what went into it, how it was made.

1:18.5

It is, you know, I used to love DVD commentaries, so it's the kind of thing that I wish existed

1:23.9

when I was starting out as a comics writer. But now it does.

1:29.4

So anyway, here's a conversation with John Spate, who, you know, he's a big deal screenwriter.

1:36.0

And it's also a lovely guy.

1:37.2

And we had a great conversation about Dr. Strange, Prometheus, a whole bunch of stuff.

1:41.4

I hope you will enjoy it.

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