The Craft
Writing for Film and Television 2013
August 30, 2013
Guided by Voices
Jill Soloway lets her characters guide her in the writing of her directorial debut feature Afternoon Delight, an offbeat hipster comedy with a surprising psychosexual twist.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
August 16, 2013
Diablo On Demand
Diablo Cody talks about Paradise, her directorial debut on DirecTV VOD about a young Christian woman suffering through a crisis of faith, and how motherhood has changed her as a writer.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
August 02, 2013
The Power of Now
Can The Spectacular Now bring back the kind of classic, relatable high school movies that John Hughes and Cameron Crowe wrote in the 80s? Scott Neustadter & Michael Weber hope so.
Written by Rob Feld
July 12, 2013
Focused on Family
Some might find The Fosters, ABC Family's new drama about an interracial lesbian couple raising a mix of multi-ethnic children, controversial, but creators Peter Paige & Bradley Bredeweg say any debate takes a backseat when it comes the writing.
Written by Denis Faye
June 21, 2013
Hammer of the Gods
Vikings' Michael Hirst explains why he writes every episode of History's new hit drama himself and recalls how a single conversation changed his life forever.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
May 24, 2013
Frances Flawed
Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig elevate the ordinary with their intimate portrait of the funny, confused, and all too human Frances Ha.
Written by Rob Feld
May 17, 2013
Portrait of a Young Lady
Nearly two decades after scripting What Maisie Knew with writing partner Nancy Doyne, Carroll Cartwright reflects on what inspired him to "reimagine" the Henry James novel and why its story still resonates more than a century later.
Written by Joseph Ferrante
May 10, 2013
It's a Matter of Taste
Bryan Fuller, showrunner of NBC's new acclaimed series Hannibal, dishes on what made him want to take on everyone's favorite brain-eating sociopath and where the show draws the line when it comes to its bloody, graphic violence.
Written by Denis Faye
May 03, 2013
Second Banana
Armando Iannucci, the heralded writer-director behind the hit British shows The Day Today and The Thick of It, brings his gift for political satire to this side of the pond with the HBO comedy Veep.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
April 12, 2013
Fisherman's Blue
Brian Helgeland draws on his fisherman's up-before-dawn, seven-days-a-week work ethic to script 42, the story of legendary Brooklyn Dodger and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson.
Written by Dylan Callaghan