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The Writers Panel

Shane Black

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The writer-director-Christmas enthusiast, whose new film The Nice Guys opens May 20, discusses his interests and process, being called a hack, success and failure, and all of his films, including Lethal Weapon, The Monster Squad, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man Three, and more.

Recorded May 1, 2016 at the Nerdist Theater at Meltdown Comics.


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0:00.0

May 25th at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, we're doing a live Dead Pilot Society,

0:06.0

our first ever open to the public, Dead Pilot Society.

0:08.8

You remember Dead Pilot Society, who's created by Andrew Reich, who brought me in,

0:13.3

and we do readings of pilots that were bought and developed, but never produced.

0:19.4

So it's the first time that anyone, including the writers, are getting to hear a table read

0:24.2

of their pilot.

0:25.7

We're doing two pilots on May 25th, one by me and Ben Ecker, and it's a cool thing that

0:31.3

we really love, so I hope you'll come check it out.

0:34.2

And one by Matt Goreley, a podcaster extraordinaire super ego i was there too more and

0:42.3

Amanda Lund actor and writer extraordinaire ghost girls you've seen it and there's is about a theme

0:50.2

park and they both worked in the theme park so it's a real fun inside uh sort of comedy thing i hope you will come check that out we have announced some

0:59.6

cast let me tell you about them how about rachel bloom writer and creator of crazy ex-girlfriend

1:07.6

she's going to be in it kyrn shipka, Sally Draper from Mad Men, she's in also

1:13.6

the Legend of Cora. Andrew Daly, co-creator and star of Review. He's on Comedy Bang Bang.

1:20.6

He is incredibly funny. Know who else is incredibly funny? Steve Agee. You know him from from the Sarah Silverman program, from the new girl.

1:28.6

Mark Evan Jackson from Brooklyn Nine-Nine from Thrilling Adventure Hour. Also from

1:32.6

Thrilling Adventure Hour, Craig Kikowsky. Also from Drunk History. These are just a few of the people

1:38.9

who are going to be performing the scripts by Akron Blacker, by Matt and Amanda, and we're doing a third

1:45.9

secret script that we can't tell you about, but you better be there to find out what it is.

1:53.4

It's going to be really cool.

1:55.6

That is all on May 25th at Largo at the Coronet.

1:59.1

You can find out about getting tickets.

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