559 - Dating Your Writing Partner

John and Craig weigh in on writing partner romances, voice-y scripts, character chemistry and end-of-draft treats in this week’s listener questions. We also host a round of How Would This Be A Movie, featuring stories on treasure hunts, jailed activists, and a sports scam. We look at how these news articles would translate to film/television and most importantly, whether they should be adapted at all. In our bonus segment the guys share hacks for remembering new people and make a pitch for name tags on set. Links: Eric Webb’s Twitter and Memorial Fundraiser Mystery of the Buried Owl by Phil Hoad for the Guardian Rodney Stotts Used to Hustle Drugs in Southeast DC. Now He’s One of the Few Black Master Falconers in America by Rodney Stotts for the Washingtonian This lawyer should be world-famous for his battle with Chevron – but he’s in jail by Erin Brockovich for the Guardian It Really Wasn’t Cricket: The Strange Case of the Fake Indian Premier League by Sameer Yasir for the NY Times Werewords Game Tiramisu Recipe in the New York Times Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt! Sign Up for the Inneresting Newsletter Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription! Craig Mazin on Twitter John August on Twitter John on Instagram Outro by Owen Danoff (send us yours!) Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli. Email us at [email protected] You can download the episode here.