Writer's Draft
Writer's Draft
Get the story behind the story in these in depth interviews with popular screenwriters.
Scott Cooper of "Crazy Heart" (Clip)
Scott Cooper discusses the journey of writing, directing and producing this personal story of a country musician on the fringe of the music ...
Jared and Jerusha Hess of Gentlemen Broncos (Clip)
The writer/director husband-and-wife team that created Napolean Dynamite reveal how they based the character on their Alaskan nephew whose ...
Shauna Cross of Whip It (Clip)
Discover the process writer Shauna Cross experienced after joining a female roller derby league and how this led to writing, pitching and ...
Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Clip)
Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day discuss the process of creating It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, by independently writing, ...
Kelly Fremon of Post Grad (Clip) Season 1
Kelly Fremon relates how her real life experiences as a post graduate struggling in the job market led to her screenplay being made into a ...
Mike Reiss of My Life in Ruins (Clip) Season 1
Mike Reiss describes the journey his short story went through after 37 magazine rejections before becoming the screenplay of My Life in ...
Robert Siegel of The Wrestler (Clip) Season 1
Robert Siegel discusses writing the screenplay based on Randy 'The Ram' Robinson attempting to build a life outside the wrestling ring.
Simon Beaufoy of Slumdog Millionaire (Clip) Season 1
In this Emmy Award winning episode, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy discusses how, while writing in India, he discovered an entirely new way of ...