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Storyteller Sessions: Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects)
This episode is part of our Storyteller Sessions event - a weekend of career-spanning conversations with game-changing storytellers, raising money for the Entertainment Community Fund. If you enjoy this episode or any of the episodes still to come across this weekend, please do consider donating via the link below:
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Gillian Flynn is an author, screenwriter and showrunner who delights in writing what she calls “bad women” - fascinatingly flawed female characters who she grants the freedom to kill, lie, harm and harass in a way that sometimes ruffles feathers. Take her 2012 novel Gone Girl, for example, which she later adapted into a smash hit movie with David Fincher. That murder-mystery tale of a marriage steeped in deceit captivated the world and sparked near-endless conversation about the poison and/or empowerment of its main character, Amy Dunne.
That novel and movie - released within two years of each other - didn't just make Flynn a literary darling. It also catapulted her to the summit of film and TV. In 2018, she co-wrote the brilliant Widows with Steve McQueen, and adapted her first novel, Sharp Objects, into a gloriously slow-burning limited series starring Amy Adams. Since then, she’s won cult acclaim for her streaming adaptation of Utopia, the British Channel 4 series.
In the conversation you’re about to hear, we ask Gillian how she pens her captivating characters and the social importance of allowing women to run riot on-screen and in her novels, the way that male anti-heroes are frequently permitted to do. She reflects on the accusations of misogyny that her work attracted from some female writers in the aftermath of Gone Girl’s release and reveals an alternative ending to that story that would have taken the tale of Nick and Amy Dunne in an entirely different direction.
Again, this conversation is in aid of the Entertainment Community Fund, who do extraordinary work lifting up storytellers of all descriptions and have been a vital support for entertainment industry workers affected by this summer’s strike action. If you enjoy this episode, please do consider clicking the link in the show notes and donating any amount you can to this great cause.
It was a huge privilege to share this conversation with Lilly who we can’t thank enough for her openness and insights. Again, this conversation is in aid of the Entertainment Community Fund, who do extraordinary work lifting up storytellers of all descriptions and have been a vital support for entertainment industry workers affected by this summer’s strikes. If you enjoy this episode, please do consider donating via the link below:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/script-apart-storyteller-sessions
Script Apart is hosted by Al Horner and produced by Kamil Dymek.
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Storyteller Sessions: Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas)
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This episode is part of our Storyteller Sessions event - a weekend of career-spanning conversations with game-changing storytellers, raising money for the Entertainment Community Fund. If you enjoy this episode or any of the episodes still to come across this weekend, please do consider donating via the link below: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/script-apart-storyteller-sessions On today’s epi...
Storyteller Sessions: Adam McKay (Anchorman, Don't Look Up)
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Welcome to the Script Apart Storyteller Sessions - three days of career-spanning conversations with truly game-changing storytellers, talking about their relationship with the page. 100% of proceeds are going to the Entertainment Community Fund, a brilliant charity doing hugely important work - so if you enjoy this episode or any of the episodes across this weekend, please do consider hitting t...
Midnight Mass with Mike Flanagan
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This episode was originally broadcast on February 21 2023. Mike Flanagan is one of the defining horror storytellers of the last decade. He’s a trusted custodian of tales by some of the greatest horror authors of all time, with Stephen King, Shirley Jackson and Edgar Allan Poe just some of the names he’s adapted into acclaimed shows and movies. His credits as a writer, director and showrunner in...
The Post with Liz Hannah
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This episode was originally broadcast on July 25 2020. There aren’t many first-time screenwriters who sit down to write a script, and soon find themselves on set with Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, bringing that script to life. That’s what happened to Liz Hannah on the back of her gripping screenplay for The Post, about America’s first female newspaper publisher, Katharine Graham...
Aftersun with Charlotte Wells
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This episode was originally broadcast on January 13 2021. Today, we have with us the extraordinary Charlotte Wells - writer-director of one of the most affecting feature debuts in recent memory. Aftersun is a meditative drama about a father and daughter on a resort holiday in Turkey, told through the eyes and camcorder footage of 11-year-old Sophie, played by Frankie Corio. She shares a sweet r...
Avatar: The Way of Water with Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa
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This episode was originally broadcast on January 17 2023. Buckle up, listeners - we’re heading to Pandora. Avatar: The Way of Water is the long-awaited sequel to one of the biggest movies of all time, and our guests today are two of its talented co-writers. You might know Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver as the screenwriters behind the brilliant Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy and 2015’s Jurassic...
Babylon with Damien Chazelle
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This episode was originally broadcast on March 7 2023. Unlike Margot Robbie in the hedonistic tour-de-force Babylon, we at Script Apart have never fought a rattlesnake. We have, however, now had the pleasure of chatting with one of our favourite filmmakers working today, Damien Chazelle. The Whiplash writer-director’s latest epic is a fevered telling of how 1920s Hollywood reacted as the indust...
Barbarian with Zach Cregger
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This episode was originally broadcast on November 23 2022. Don’t go down to the basement. Rule number one of surviving a horror movie, right? One of the many miracles of Barbarian - the debut feature from writer-director Zach Cregger that became one of the year’s biggest hits - was how it took one of the most tried and tested tropes of the genre and managed to weave something so surprising and ...
Doctor Sleep with Mike Flanagan
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This episode was originally broadcast on March 14 2023. This week on Script Apart, the return of Mike Flanagan! The response to our last episode speaking to the horror auteur, one of this generation’s true titans of the genre, was so emphatic, we couldn’t wait to invite Mike back on the show to get lost in the Overlook-esque hedge maze of 2019's Doctor Sleep, his near-miraculous sequel to The S...
Donnie Darko with Richard Kelly
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This episode was originally broadcast on October 27 2022. “28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.” In October 2001, a six-foot demonic rabbit named Frank materialised in front of a teenage Jake Gyllenhaal to issue that grave warning, setting in motion the plot of one of one of the great Halloween movies of all time. Donnie Darko was a time-twisting sci-fi cur...
The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner
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This episode was originally broadcast on January 27 2023. Tony Kushner is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of Angels in America and the long-time writing partner of a certain Steven Spielberg. His latest collaboration with the director, co-written with the Close Encounters filmmaker, sees Steven pulling the curtain back on his fascinating childhood, delving back to a time in which his blossom...
Freaks & Geeks and Spy with Paul Feig
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This episode was originally broadcast on August 30 2022. Our guest today is a storyteller who knows great comedy. As a director, Paul Feig has manned beloved movies like Bridesmaids, Ghostbuster and The Heat, not to mention memorable episodes of smash hit TV shows like Arrested Development and The Office. When it comes to writing, he more often than not passes the baton to brilliant collaborato...
Groundhog Day with Danny Rubin
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This episode was originally broadcast on February 1 2023. It’s thirty years to the day since a grouchy weatherman named Phil Connors found himself reliving the same day over and over again in Groundhog Day - a comedy that’s timeless in more ways than one. On today’s episode, we're joined by the film’s writer, Danny Rubin, as we delve into his initial screenplay for the iconic time-loop farce, w...
Elemental with Kat Likkel and John Hoberg
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This episode was originally broadcast on September 12 2023. This week on Script Apart, the writers behind Pixar’s latest heartwarming spectacle take us down to Element City where the tree people are green and the Vivisteria Flowers are pretty. Yes, today we’re joined by Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, the husband-and-wife duo whose script for Elemental - co-written with Brenda Hsueh and director Pe...
I Love My Dad with James Morosini
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I Love My Dad with James Morosini
Knocked Up with Judd Apatow
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Knocked Up with Judd Apatow
Joy Ride with Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao
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Joy Ride with Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao
Erin Brockovich with Susannah Grant
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Erin Brockovich with Susannah Grant
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One with Christopher McQuarrie
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One with Christopher McQuarrie
Return To Seoul with Davy Chou
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Return To Seoul with Davy Chou
The Sopranos with David Chase
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The Sopranos with David Chase
Jurassic Park with David Koepp
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Jurassic Park with David Koepp
Something In The Dirt with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
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Something In The Dirt with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Tár with Todd Field
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Tár with Todd Field
The Whale with Samuel D. Hunter
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The Whale with Samuel D. Hunter
White Noise with Noah Baumbach
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White Noise with Noah Baumbach
Script Club: The Shining with Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3, Coco)
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Script Club: The Shining with Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3, Coco)
The Wolf of Wall Street and Tulsa King with Terence Winter
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The Wolf of Wall Street and Tulsa King with Terence Winter
Ocean's Eleven with Ted Griffin
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Ocean's Eleven with Ted Griffin

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  • @frenchcoupon3391
    @frenchcoupon3391 21 день тому

    The elephantine being/Space Jockey could have been truly remarkable without any ties to humans. Making them humanoid is cool but not as cool as the Giger “Space Jockey” that is grown in/from the chair. Where the biological elements end and where the mechanical ones begin, no one could tell. It is that dichotomy that Prometheus ignored. Aliens is probably my favorite in the saga, close to Alien 1 & 4. But I agree with many that only the first Alien nailed the lovecraftian cosmic horror, and thus- the biomechanical nature of the Xeno, and by extension- of the Engineer.

  • @jimvinespresents...8463
    @jimvinespresents...8463 Місяць тому

    Although I didn't entirely dislike THE FABELMANS, I feel it certainly fell short. As a person who grew up making films in the mid-1970s, I was eager to see a film that captured the wonder of creative exploration, the art of crafting characters and weaving narratives, and the power of taking audiences to another world, all through the eyes of a child. Regrettably, this was not the experience delivered by Spielberg's film. Again, I didn't dislike the movie, but I do feel it had the potential to deliver much more.

  • @garrybaldy327
    @garrybaldy327 Місяць тому

    Interview starts at 5:15 after all the waffle

  • @MEN101
    @MEN101 Місяць тому

    Wow thanks for uploading this. Loved Prometheus but would have been cooler if Alien Engineers was released.

  • @scottstephenson724
    @scottstephenson724 Місяць тому

    I don’t get how this isn’t more popular

  • @gluttonousghost
    @gluttonousghost 2 місяці тому

    It seems like Spaihts contributed the strongest ideas. If they had built a trilogy around exploring the engineer mythos AND THEN tied it into the Alien franchise towards the end it'd have been an extremely rewarding revelation instead of building up everyone's expectations going in. The weakest parts; the very poorly written minor characters and disjointed sequence of events really pulls the film down and spoils the great things; Watts/Shaw, David and the grandiose mythology they were building. The engineers were an intriguing/terrifying enough of an idea to carry their own franchise.

  • @CharlesBojangles
    @CharlesBojangles 2 місяці тому

    With the recent success of Alien: Romulus, Ridley Scott should bring back Spaiths to finish the story of the Engineers and David (and keep low-tier writers like Damon Lindelof, Michael Green, and Jack Paglen far away from it).

  • @snail5687
    @snail5687 2 місяці тому

    glad i found this, was a really nice listen! :)

  • @MrFooFighter13
    @MrFooFighter13 2 місяці тому

    I also love the film, but for once I feel I agree with the studio; maybe this should have been a different franchise entirely. I agree with the interest in the film being a prequel and how it would be good to know about more about the derelict and its inhabitants. But as soon as he joined the dots that they must be linked to us and therefore be our creators, I disengage a bit personally. I think this concept is arguably the main flaw with the whole project. As I said, I ended up being on board with what they squished together, but it was just that. A hodge-podge. Not a pure Alien prequel we probably could have got. Maybe with the way things are rebooted every 20 seconds nowadays, we will get that movie/show one day.

  • @guaguancos.montunodcubop8923
    @guaguancos.montunodcubop8923 3 місяці тому

    I know people have issues with this film but I love it. I just wish Jon would've been able to do his thing free reign

  • @SantsLime
    @SantsLime 3 місяці тому

    Thank you so much for bringing us those interviews! . I'm each day investing more and more of myself into learning about it and materials like this one that you provided helps a lot. So, thank you again.

  • @surcrumplefart
    @surcrumplefart 4 місяці тому

    very well spoken and professional

  • @itsBonjo
    @itsBonjo 4 місяці тому

    why does this video have such a small amount of views?

  • @vubutary
    @vubutary 4 місяці тому

    Hello good evening, I don't want to take up your time, I'm Brazilian and this message is being translated on Google Translate, but I have to ask, if you can please answer me, point me to a path, an author, or at least a book, or a video on UA-cam, which can be my guide to creating stories that can change people's lives, in the same way that the story you wrote changed mine, just a tip, a guide, a guide, that's all I ask of you, congratulations and thanks for the content

  • @MrYDx3
    @MrYDx3 4 місяці тому

    Awesome podcast! very inspiring for movie creators, I love it!

  • @BayAreaMike99
    @BayAreaMike99 5 місяців тому

    This is crazy bro. I’m gonna listen to it later. I’m watching the movie right now.

  • @CodyGraves2223
    @CodyGraves2223 5 місяців тому

    This is the greatest channel 🙌 love the interviews! Such a magnificent idea to peek behind the curtain of the writers. (People often overlooked) Can't praise it enough. Fantastic interviews and questions and overall production 5 🌟

  • @jordanncyr
    @jordanncyr 6 місяців тому

    My friend showed me this podcast yesterday and I can’t believe how many great writers and movies that you highlight! I have so many downloaded, I’ll be listening to you for weeks ✌🏼

  • @sceneweekly
    @sceneweekly 7 місяців тому

    great podcast - good stuff all around

  • @smellycat2687
    @smellycat2687 7 місяців тому

    I absolutely love this episode, so emotional! Heath Ledger was such a great actor!

  • @Justin_Cunningham
    @Justin_Cunningham 9 місяців тому

    Terence Winter is my favorite screenwriter. My biggest source of inspiration in my writing career. Thank you for this 🙏

    • @scriptapart
      @scriptapart 9 місяців тому

      Thanks so much for listening!

    • @Justin_Cunningham
      @Justin_Cunningham 8 місяців тому

      @scriptapart my writing partner put me on to your channel and it's quickly become one of my favorites. I just listened to the one you did with Darius Marder on The Sound of Metal. You get some of the best writers to interview. It's awesome man.

  • @LeethLee1
    @LeethLee1 9 місяців тому

    they are great because they express their genuine deep core in film. the reason good art exists.

  • @ChrisMeadows1992
    @ChrisMeadows1992 10 місяців тому

    Hey guys! It's pretty wild that David was most certainly in the heat of writing the new Jurassic film before and after this interview! I think his scripts for Jurassic Park and its immediate sequel both capture the best aspects of the franchise and I can't wait to see him undo much of the damage Colin Trevorrow has inflicted on the IP. Apparently it starts shooting around May-July 2024 with a targeted 2025 release date. Looking forward to it.

    • @scriptapart
      @scriptapart 10 місяців тому

      That occurred to us yesterday too! Thanks so much for listening Chris 🙏

    • @brice9996
      @brice9996 7 місяців тому

      Yes. Exactly. While I listen to this discussion, I have been thinking that the script for the new Jurassic movie is somewhere lying on his table and currently working on it & also that he being carefully not to utter a single word even unintentionally about it while he answers his questions.

  • @jpch8814
    @jpch8814 10 місяців тому

    57:14 New Flynn novel incoming!!! Thx for this amazing interview.

  • @PeachesandCream225
    @PeachesandCream225 10 місяців тому

    Great interview!

  • @DariBenny
    @DariBenny 10 місяців тому

    Remember Sense8 and speed racer

  • @RabinMagar-pu4ow
    @RabinMagar-pu4ow 11 місяців тому

    Hi

  • @DariBenny
    @DariBenny 11 місяців тому

    Hello

  • @stevenharsono9911
    @stevenharsono9911 Рік тому

    REBECCA FERGUSON'S ILSA FAUST CHARACTER THAT WE LOVED FOR EIGHT YEARS END UP BEING KILLED OFF LIKE A CHICKEN ‼️😡😡😡😡👿👿👿 , THAT THE FACT FROM THIS FILM 😡😡

  • @haevan92
    @haevan92 Рік тому

    One of my favourite films

  • @NicholasDeMarco-mi8ss
    @NicholasDeMarco-mi8ss Рік тому

    Great interview. Love Shane. Would be a dream if he directed one of my scripts.

    • @scriptapart
      @scriptapart Рік тому

      He's the best, isn't he? The Nice Guys is another fave of ours 😎

  • @user-fm3xr9yz3i
    @user-fm3xr9yz3i Рік тому

    Gunns TSS was DC's biggest flop in 10yrs prior to the flash, the physical sales of TSS are not good at all.