Scott Rosenberg: 12/22/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Scott Rosenberg, the writer best known for his movies Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Beautiful Girls, and Con Air. The two discuss the impact of Scott's father passing away, creating languages in movies, and the themes that run through many of his films. Plus, Scott talks about how the Hollywood machine turned Gone in 60 Seconds into a different movie and why the true emotion of Scott's screenplays have rarely (if ever) been captured on screen. Topics mentioned: Things to Do When You’re Dead in Denver Beautiful Girls Con Air Gone in Sixty Seconds Rounders Boston University University of Southern California The Moment with Tony Gilroy: 10/28/14 Sunset Boulevard The Black Ice by Michael Connelly October Road A Clockwork Orange House of Games Marathon Man Chinatown Lethal Weapon Leaving Las Vegas Jumanji Grease Electra Glide in Blue The Wanderers by Richard Price Ladies Man by Richard Price Magnum Force The Longest Yard The Deer Hunter Grosse Pointe Blank Solitary Man Disturbing Behavior Zoo Kangaroo Jack People mentioned: Gary Fleder Leslie Epstein Joel Silver Mike De Luca Quentin Tarantino Harvey Weinstein Shane Black Jon Favreau Steve Gaghan Peter Berg William Goldman Stephen King Salman Rushdie Donald Westlake Donna Langley Dennis Lehane Bruce Springsteen Vin Diesel James Patterson Ted Demme This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we’ll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee\xadfree. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/Moment. And by Making A Murderer, an unprecedented new documentary that takes viewers inside a high-stakes criminal case where reputation is everything and things are never as they appear. All episodes are now streaming, only on Netflix. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of moment is brought to you by Braintree.
0:02.0	Looking to set up payments for your business, Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution
0:05.6	that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration plus.
0:10.0	We'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions, fee free.
0:16.2	To learn more, visit Braintree Payments.com slash Moment.
0:21.0	And by making a murderer, an unprecedented new documentary that takes viewers inside a high-stakes criminal case where reputation is everything and things are never as they appear.
0:31.0	All episodes are now streaming, only on Netflix.
0:35.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening.
0:48.6	This is a big deal to me. Right at the beginning, when I made my initial list of people I wanted to talk to on this show
0:54.0	when I started 98 episodes ago.
0:57.0	Today's guest was on it.
0:59.0	And that's because today's guest was someone
1:01.0	who was an inspiration to me right as I was starting to do this, not podcasting, movies.
1:08.0	My guest today is Scott Rosenberg, and Scott has been one of the most important and
1:13.0	influential screenwriters in the movie business since people started
1:17.1	reading his script things to do in Denver when you're dead.
1:20.0	And what you'd write that script?
1:21.5	I wrote it in 93.
1:25.6	Right.
1:26.6	Rounders came out our first movie in 98 and I think Denver came out in 95, right?
1:30.6	Right, right, yeah.
1:31.6	But I'd read it way before that. And I remember that David Levine, who's my
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