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Chernobyl tells the story of the 1986 nuclear power plant explosion in the Soviet Union. What surprises most people about the show is that it was written by the guy who wrote The Hangover Part II and III and Scary Movie 3 and 4. Before Chernobyl, Craig Mazin made his living writing comedy films, but after multiple decades in the business he decided that he was going to step out of the box the industry had placed him. What resulted is one of the highest rated television shows in history.

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Stephen King is one of the great American novelists. He burst onto the scene with 1974's Carrie and then went on to have one of the most prolific decades that any author has ever had. In the first ten years of his career he published many great books, but five of them are considered all time greats: Carrie (1974), 'Salem's Lot (1975), The Shining (1976), The Stand (1978), and Pet Pet Sematary (1983).

King Kong is a 2005 film directed by Peter Jackson. The making of this film was a life long dream for Jackson, who, as a child, fell in love with movies while watching the original King Kong from 1933.

This episode breaks down Jackson's approach to remaking his favourite movie of all time, and how lessons from The Lord of the Rings would benefit its production.

This is the third and final episode in my series on the films of Peter Jackson.

In 1995, Hollywood considered The Lord of the Rings 'unfilmable' which is why it was a crazy filmmaker from the other side of the world who set out to try and do it.

It took Peter Jackson years to get the green light and when he finally got it, he was awarded with the daunting task of having to figure out how to adapt one of the most beloved fantasy novels in history for the big screen. This is how he did it.

Peter Jackson is a writer and director known for The Lord of the Rings. Today's episode explores the five feature films he made before venturing into Middle Earth.

Ghost of Tsushima is a 2020 video game developed by Sucker Punch Productions for the PlayStation 4. The game currently holds a 9.2 user score on MetaCritic, making it one of the top 20 highest rated video games of all time.

'Best-Sellers: Are they born or made? (Lincoln's Doctor's Dog) is a 1939 book written by publishers Stanley Unwin and George Stevens, along with novelist Frank Swinnerton about what actually makes a book a bestseller.

I read this book to see what timeless lesson it can teach modern artists when it comes to promoting their work.

Extra notes and lesson I learned from studying Stanley Unwin, the publisher of The Lord of the Rings.

Sir Stanley Unwin is the founder of Allen & Unwin, the publishing firm behind J.R.R. Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Bertrand Russell, Thor Heyerdahl, and more.

In preparation for this episode I read Stanley's memoir, The Truth About a Publisher, and his son (and successor) Rayner's personal history of the company, George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer.

Sir Stanley Unwin is the founder of Allen & Unwin, the publishing firm behind J.R.R. Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Bertrand Russell, Thor Heyerdahl, and more.

In preparation for this episode I read Stanley's memoir, The Truth About a Publisher, and his son (and successor) Rayner's personal history of the company, George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer.