Screenwriting Advice You’ll Actually Use with John August

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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For this very special episode of Working It out, Mike welcomes John August, the screenwriter behind Charlie’s Angels with Drew Barrymore, Tim Burton’s Big Fish, and his breakthrough film Go, which is celebrating its 25 year anniversary. John co-hosts the screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes with Craig Mazin (The Last of Us), which is not only Mike’s favorite screenwriting podcast, but his favorite podcast about the creative process (not counting Working It Out). John shares direct, practical screenwriting advice that you’ll actually use, whether you’re an aspiring screenwriter or you want to pursue creative work of any kind.

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0:00.0	Today on the show we have a very special episode with John August.
0:13.0	John is a screenwriter, an acclaimed screenwriter.
0:17.0	He wrote Go in 1999.
0:20.0	He wrote Charlie's Angels Big Fish.
0:22.0	So many movies.
0:25.0	Very significantly, he is one of the co-hosts of Script Notes,
0:29.2	which is my favorite podcast about writing and creation.
0:35.0	It is co-hosted with Craig Mason,
0:37.8	who was on this podcast before.
0:39.4	He created Last of Us on HBO.
0:41.8	This is such a fascinating chat today that we have for aspiring screenwriters.
0:47.0	I get screenwriting questions from folks all the time.
0:50.0	I've made two movies. John has made countless movies, written countless movies. He says
0:56.1	some things today that I find completely surprising and interesting and inspiring.
1:02.1	It made me want just to write, right, right. I want to thank everybody who's
1:07.3	been coming out to the shows. I was in Troy New York last week. I was in Rochester, Toronto. At the end of this month I'm headed back to Florida for those Miami and St. Petersburg make-up shows.
1:21.6	We just announced a third show in Westport, Connecticut on June 4th.
1:26.4	We added a second show in San Francisco. September 27th. We added a second show in Charlotte. That's June 26th. There's a fourth and final show in Washington, D.C. June 30th. We added a second show in Red Bank, New Jersey.
1:42.6	I'm doing a show in Indianapolis.
1:45.4	I'm doing the Fillmore in Detroit, which I love.
1:49.0	I'm going to be in Louisville at the Brown Theater,
1:51.7	which I also love the Riemann Auditorium in Nashville.
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