Working With Directors (As The Writer) – The Screenwriting Life #11

Episode Description:
All writers dream of that moment when a producer says, “we want to make your movie,” but then comes the nuts and bolts of what that actually means. What if we disagree with the notes? What if we can’t deliver on what’s being asked? We’re going over all of these questions today!
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It’s no secret that plays and movies are entirely different mediums, so how do you give the cinematic treatment to a play as celebrated as “The Piano Lesson” by Pulitzer Prize-winning August Wilson? From the start, co-writer and director Malcom Washington came in with a very specific take on the material, and was incredibly grateful when Oscar-nominated “Mudbound” co-writer Virgil Williams came on board to help nurture that take on the page. In today’s conversation, you’ll hear how the two of them wrote together in the desert, creating a routinized approach to the material, while still leaving space for discovery.
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