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Movies that Never Were
John and Craig descend into development hell to look at films that almost but never quite existed. Using both widely-publicized and little-known examples, they examine common patterns that keep movies frozen in script form.
We also follow up on solar storms, writer education and genres people should see at least one of. We then answer listener questions on writing empathetically, late-career stamina, non-English dialogue, multi-part movies, and the Scriptnotes theme itself.
In our bonus segment for premium members, if John and Craig were never paid to write in the screenplay format again, would they still do it?
Links:
Email us at [email protected]
You can download the episode here.
UPDATE 8-19-25: The transcript for this episode can be found here.
The post Movies that Never Were first appeared on John August.
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By John and Craig descend into development hell to look at films that almost but never quite existed. Using both widely-publicized and little-known examples, they examine common patterns that keep movies frozen in script form.
We also follow up on solar storms, writer education and genres people should see at least one of. We then answer listener questions on writing empathetically, late-career stamina, non-English dialogue, multi-part movies, and the Scriptnotes theme itself.
In our bonus segment for premium members, if John and Craig were never paid to write in the screenplay format again, would they still do it?
Links:
Email us at [email protected]
You can download the episode here.
UPDATE 8-19-25: The transcript for this episode can be found here.
The post Movies that Never Were first appeared on John August.