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Podcast: Write On SC
Episode: Screenwriting for Dummies
Description: Our first conversation about film adaptations of books happened way back in August 2019 with episodes 54 & 55 – we talked so much we had to continue it out the next week. But yesterday was National Screenwriters’ Day and so I delivered my five inimitable screenwriters on the morning show:Tina Fey — Mean Girls, 30 Rock, Saturday Night LiveThe Coen brothers — The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, o Brother Where Art Thou, and FargoJulius J. And Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch — CasablancaGreta Gerwig — The Barbie Movie, LadybirdAaron Sorkin — The West Wing, The NewsroomOnly the Casablanca crew was working from source material, and that was a...