Tim McKeon/Stacey Sher
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Producer Stacey Sher's films include Adventures in Babysitting, Reality Bites, The Fisher King, Get Shorty, Pulp Fiction, Erin Brokovitch, Django Unchained, and many, many more. She discusses her successes and her role in making so many landmark films, her stint at Danny DeVito's Jersey Films, working with writers and directors, and her current job as the co-president of Activision Blizzard Studios. Plus: a short chat with returning guest Tim McKeon (creator of Odd Squad) about his new Amazon pilot, Will vs the Future, a YA sci-fi comedy about the boy who may destroy the future and the girl sent from the future to prevent that from happening. Will vs the Future is available to watch now on Amazon, and you should! And if you like it, please leave a review!
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| 0:00.0 | This life I've worked so hard for. |
| 0:02.7 | Let's see what lies beyond with Disney's Moana 2 soundtrack. |
| 0:07.0 | What lies beyond under skies I've never seen. |
| 0:14.0 | Will I lose myself between my home and what's unknown if I go beyond. |
| 0:23.6 | Disney's Moana 2 soundtrack out now. |
| 0:26.6 | With the future of our people's... |
| 0:29.6 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome to the Writers Panel. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast. |
| 0:42.7 | I created the show because I wanted to talk to other writers about the business and process of writing. |
| 0:48.7 | I've had more than 500 writers on the show, so please check the archives to find more writers and more TV shows of |
| 0:54.5 | interest to you. I'm a writer myself, having written for supernatural, Puss and Boots, and other |
| 0:59.9 | programs. I have a couple of cool projects out this first quarter of 2017 that I hope you'll |
| 1:05.6 | check out. One is the Supernatural Western comic book series from Boom Publishing that I wrote |
| 1:10.8 | with my writing partner, Ben Acker, and our friend, the TV showrunner, Andrew Miller. |
| 1:14.9 | It's beautifully illustrated by Hannah Christensen, and the first issue is available in comic stores and online February 8th. |
| 1:22.3 | In March comes the first book in a series of young adult novels that Acker and I wrote called Star Wars Join |
| 1:28.0 | the Resistance. It takes place just before the Force Awakens and is about a bunch of kids who |
| 1:32.9 | join the fight against the First Order. But mostly they have adventures, fall in love with each |
| 1:37.4 | other, and get in trouble. I hope you'll check out both of those projects. We're very proud of how |
| 1:41.6 | they came out. Let me know who you'd like to hear on this podcast by following me on Twitter at Ben Blacker, |
| 1:47.3 | like the color only more so, liking the Writerspanel on Facebook and visiting writerspanel.tumpler.com. |
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