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03 May

How to Write a Good Fantasy Ensemble, with Victoria Aveyard

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This article is sponsored by Writing compelling characters can be one of the most difficult parts of the craft, especially when it comes to ensemble stories, which focus on groups of characters and their relationships with one another. In an ensemble story, each character needs their own desires and roots, their own challenges and voice. At their best, reading a good ensemble story can feel like hanging out with a clever, loving, bickering group of friends. It’s one of the reasons we love The Lord of the Rings or Six of Crows or The Expanse. It’s also one of the…
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01 Apr

Why Star Trek: Discovery Needed to Write Out Its Klingons

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The third season of Star Trek: Discovery was many things, including a trip into an uncharted future that released the series from concerns about pesky things like existing franchise canon and a soft reboot that allowed a show that had often struggled to determine its identity to find its voice at last. It was also the first Discovery season that didn’t feature one particular Star Trek staple: The Klingon race. Are those things connected to one another? Signs definitely point to yes. To be fair, few fans were probably that surprised by this particular narrative. The Klingons are essentially Discovery’s…
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15 Jul

I May Destroy You: a Bold Show Only a Survivor Could Write

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Warning: contains spoilers for the I May Destroy You finale Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You is a tour de force creation of laser-focused storytelling. A creator working at the current height (but clearly not yet the apex) of her power, Coel’s take on trauma and consent is the kind of prestige exploration that only a survivor could write. The series starts with Coel’s pitch-perfect take on the nuts and bolts of trauma, from the intrusive thoughts and sarcasm toward art therapy to the ringing we hear when main character Arabella is triggered to Arabella downplaying her own trauma by…
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02 Jul

John Wick Creator to Write My Friend Pedro TV Series

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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad will write and produce a TV series based on the hit indie game, My Friend Pedro. The upcoming adaptation is described in the report as an “R-rated, half-hour dramedy series.” Legendary Television, DJ2 Entertainment, and 87North Productions will collaborate on the project, with Legendary Entertainment reportedly having acquired the rights to the My Friend Pedro video game for the purposes of this adaptation. 87North’s David Leitch (co-director of John Wick and director of Deadpool 2) will also serve as an executive producer on this project alongside various other representatives…
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21 May

Marc Guggenheim to Write Sony’s Jackpot Spider-Man Spinoff Movie

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Jackpot may not exactly be considered an A-list Spider-Man comic book character to most fans, but Sony Pictures apparently sees superheroine solo movie potential, with the studio bringing such a project to the forefront—just a day after the report of another new one—by tapping a prolific writer from the realm of comic books and comic book television. Marc Guggenheim has been hired to pen the script for a Jackpot movie, reports Deadline. The project will adapt the story of the titular female hero, born Sara Ehret. The character gained powers after she was accidentally exposed—while pregnant—to Lot 777, an experimental…
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20 Jan

Who Will Write Our History

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Who Will Write Our History tells the story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret archive he created and led in the Warsaw Ghetto. With 30,000 pages of writing, photographs, posters, and more, the Oyneg Shabes Archive is the most important cache of in-the-moment, eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust. It documents not only how the Jews of the ghetto died, but how they lived. The film is based on the book of the same name by historian Samuel Kassow.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jan 18, 2019
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28 Nov

Write When You Get Work

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
Ruth Duffy is getting by on an assistant's salary at a pricey school for girls in Manhattan, managing to move beyond the trouble and loss of her teenage years. Jonny Collins is working local jobs near the Throgs Neck Bridge in the Bronx. When they cross paths after years apart, Jonny is as consumed with Ruth as he was in their high school days, and he infiltrates her life for love and profit.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Nov 23, 2018
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