<p>What’s a MacGuffin? What do you do with it? How does it inform your screenplay? A MacGuffin can be anything and do anything. Let us explain. The guys do script surgery on "Johnny English Part 3" and Ryan reads his pitch, “Mr. Words of the Year,” in Logline Cage Match.</p>

What’s a MacGuffin? What do you do with it? How does it inform your screenplay? A MacGuffin can be anything and do anything. Let us explain. The guys do script surgery on "Johnny English Part 3" and Ryan reads his pitch, “Mr. Words of the Year,” in Logline Cage Match.

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The Screenplay Writers is a master class in writing screenplays by two screenplay writers who, between them, have crafted dozens upon dozens. And that doesn’t include the dozens more they’ve brainstormed. Join Ryan and Nathan as they share their vast stores of knowledge on the essential elements of a successful screenplay—as well as the challenges of the revered profession. Yeah, there are a few!

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