A podcast about the first-draft secrets behind great movies and TV shows. Each episode, the screenwriter behind a beloved film shares with us their initial screenplay for that movie. We then talk through what changed, what didn’t and why on its journey to the big screen. Hosted by Al Horner and produced by Kamil Dymek.
Project Hail Mary with Drew Goddard, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Project Hail Mary (2026) · Mar 26, 2026
Bugonia with Will Tracy
Bugonia (2025) · Mar 15, 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) · Mar 14, 2026
Train Dreams with Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Train Dreams (2025) · Mar 12, 2026
Weapons with Zach Cregger
Weapons (2025) · Feb 24, 2026
The Plague with Charlie Polinger
The Plague (2025) · Feb 18, 2026
Rental Family with Hikari
Rental Family (2025) · Feb 14, 2026
Hamnet with Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell
Hamnet (2025) · Feb 2, 2026
The Smashing Machine with Benny Safdie
The Smashing Machine (2025) · Dec 21, 2025
Urchin with Harris Dickinson
Urchin (2025) · Dec 18, 2025
The Lost Bus with Brad Ingelsby
The Lost Bus (2025) · Dec 17, 2025
Hedda with Nia DaCosta
Hedda (2025) · Dec 16, 2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery with Rian Johnson
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) · Dec 15, 2025
The Running Man with Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
The Running Man (2025) · Dec 9, 2025
Wicked: For Good with Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox
Wicked: For Good (2025) · Dec 2, 2025
Nuremberg with James Vanderbilt
Nuremberg (2025) · Nov 19, 2025
Sinners with Ryan Coogler
Sinners (2025) · Nov 17, 2025
Ballad of a Small Player with Rowan Joffé and Edward Berger
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) · Nov 14, 2025
Play Dirty with Shane Black
Play Dirty (2025) · Oct 30, 2025
Good Fortune with Aziz Ansari
Good Fortune (2025) · Oct 17, 2025
The Life of Chuck with Mike Flanagan
The Life of Chuck (2025) · Oct 15, 2025
All Of You with Brett Goldstein and William Bridges
All of You (2025) · Oct 1, 2025
Sorry, Baby with Eva Victor
Sorry, Baby (2025) · Sep 20, 2025
Eddington with Ari Aster
Eddington (2025) · Aug 22, 2025
Stage Apart: My Neighbor Totoro with Tom Morton-Smith
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) · Aug 14, 2025
M3GAN 2.0 with Gerard Johnstone
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) · Jul 13, 2025
Elio with Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian
Elio (2025) · Jun 27, 2025
28 Years Later with Alex Garland
28 Years Later (2025) · Jun 23, 2025
Havoc with Gareth Evans
Havoc (2025) · May 2, 2025
Clueless with Amy Heckerling
Clueless (1995) · Apr 25, 2025
American Psycho with Guinevere Turner
American Psycho (2000) · Apr 11, 2025
The Monkey with Osgood Perkins
The Monkey (2025) · Feb 24, 2025
September 5 with Tim Fehlbaum and Moritz Binder
September 5 (2024) · Feb 18, 2025
Anora with Sean Baker
Anora (2024) · Feb 15, 2025
Companion with Drew Hancock
Companion (2025) · Feb 10, 2025
The Wild Robot with Chris Sanders
The Wild Robot (2024) · Feb 6, 2025
A Real Pain with Jesse Eisenberg
A Real Pain (2024) · Feb 4, 2025
Before Sunrise with Kim Krizan
Before Sunrise (1995) · Jan 31, 2025
Storytelling Tips from The Shining with Coco’s Lee Unkrich (Patreon Preview)
The Shining (1980) · Jan 30, 2025
Sideways with Alexander Payne
Sideways (2004) · Jan 29, 2025
The Apprentice with Ali Abbasi
The Apprentice (2024) · Jan 14, 2025
Babygirl with Halina Reijn
Babygirl (2024) · Jan 12, 2025
Nickel Boys with RaMell Ross
Nickel Boys (2024) · Jan 5, 2025
Challengers and Queer with Justin Kuritzkes
Challengers (2024) · Dec 23, 2024
Challengers and Queer with Justin Kuritzkes
Queer (2024) · Dec 23, 2024
Conclave with Peter Straughan
Conclave (2024) · Dec 21, 2024
Hit Man with Richard Linklater
Hit Man (2024) · Dec 18, 2024
Dune: Part Two with Denis Villeneuve
Dune: Part Two (2024) · Dec 16, 2024
Nightbitch with Marielle Heller
Nightbitch (2024) · Dec 13, 2024
Blitz with Steve McQueen
Blitz (2024) · Nov 26, 2024
Emilia Pérez with Jacques Audiard
Emilia Pérez (2024) · Nov 24, 2024
Fight Club and Shock Induction with Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club (1999) · Nov 21, 2024
Woman Of The Hour with Ian McDonald
Woman of the Hour (2024) · Nov 14, 2024
Heretic with Beck/Woods
Heretic (2024) · Nov 12, 2024
Strange Darling with J.T. Mollner
Strange Darling (2024) · Sep 30, 2024
His Three Daughters with Azazel Jacobs
His Three Daughters (2024) · Sep 20, 2024
Back To The Future Part II with Bob Gale
Back to the Future Part II (1989) · Sep 12, 2024
Coco with Matthew Aldrich
Coco (2017) · Sep 5, 2024
Sing Sing with Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley
Sing Sing (2024) · Aug 29, 2024
The Terminal with Sacha Gervasi
The Terminal (2004) · Aug 9, 2024
Forrest Gump with Eric Roth
Forrest Gump (1994) · Aug 1, 2024
A Quiet Place: Day One with Michael Sarnoski
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) · Jul 5, 2024
The Bikeriders with Jeff Nichols
The Bikeriders (2024) · Jun 21, 2024
No One Will Save You With Brian Duffield
No One Will Save You (2023) · May 15, 2024
The Fall Guy with Drew Pearce
The Fall Guy (2024) · May 3, 2024
Air with Alex Convery
Air (2023) · Apr 25, 2024
The Blair Witch Project with Eduardo Sánchez
The Blair Witch Project (1999) · Apr 20, 2024
Civil War with Alex Garland
Civil War (2024) · Apr 13, 2024
Script Club: Children of Men with Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties)
Children of Men (2006) · Mar 4, 2024
How To Have Sex with Molly Manning Walker
How to Have Sex (2023) · Feb 9, 2024
American Fiction with Cord Jefferson
American Fiction (2023) · Feb 6, 2024
The Holdovers with David Hemingson
The Holdovers (2023) · Feb 1, 2024
All Of Us Strangers with Andrew Haigh
All of Us Strangers (2023) · Jan 30, 2024
Maestro with Josh Singer
Maestro (2023) · Jan 24, 2024
Beau Is Afraid with Ari Aster
Beau Is Afraid (2023) · Jan 19, 2024
Poor Things with Tony McNamara
Poor Things (2023) · Jan 11, 2024
Society Of The Snow with J.A. Bayona
Society of the Snow (2023) · Jan 4, 2024
Toy Story 3 with Michael Arndt
Toy Story 3 (2010) · Dec 21, 2023
Leave The World Behind with Sam Esmail
Leave the World Behind (2023) · Dec 7, 2023
Eileen with Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel
Eileen (2023) · Nov 30, 2023
May December with Samy Burch
May December (2023) · Nov 23, 2023
The Killer with Andrew Kevin Walker
The Killer (2023) · Nov 17, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon with Eric Roth
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) · Nov 9, 2023
The Royal Hotel with Kitty Green
The Royal Hotel (2023) · Nov 5, 2023
Bottoms with Emma Seligman
Bottoms (2023) · Nov 3, 2023
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem with Jeff Rowe
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) · Oct 26, 2023
Storyteller Sessions: Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects)
Gone Girl (2014) · Oct 22, 2023
Storyteller Sessions: Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects)
Sharp Objects (2025) · Oct 22, 2023
Storyteller Sessions: Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas)
The Matrix (1999) · Oct 21, 2023
Elemental with Kat Likkel and John Hoberg
Elemental (2023) · Sep 12, 2023
I Love My Dad with James Morosini
I Love My Dad (2022) · Sep 8, 2023
Knocked Up with Judd Apatow
Knocked Up (2007) · Aug 31, 2023
Joy Ride with Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao
Joy Ride (2023) · Aug 10, 2023
Erin Brockovich with Susannah Grant
Erin Brockovich (2000) · Aug 4, 2023
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One with Christopher McQuarrie
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) · Jul 27, 2023
Return To Seoul with Davy Chou
Return to Seoul (2022) · Jul 20, 2023
Jurassic Park with David Koepp
Jurassic Park (1993) · Jun 8, 2023
Doctor Sleep with Mike Flanagan
Doctor Sleep (2019) · Mar 14, 2023
Babylon with Damien Chazelle
Babylon (2022) · Mar 7, 2023
Something In The Dirt with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Something in the Dirt (2022) · Mar 1, 2023
Tár with Todd Field
TÁR (2022) · Feb 10, 2023
The Whale with Samuel D. Hunter
The Whale (2022) · Feb 7, 2023
Groundhog Day with Danny Rubin
Groundhog Day (1993) · Feb 1, 2023
The Fabelmans with Tony Kushner
The Fabelmans (2022) · Jan 27, 2023
Avatar: The Way of Water with Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) · Jan 17, 2023
Aftersun with Charlotte Wells
Aftersun (2022) · Jan 13, 2023
White Noise with Noah Baumbach
White Noise (2022) · Jan 3, 2023
Script Club: The Shining with Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3, Coco)
The Shining (1980) · Dec 16, 2022
The Wolf of Wall Street and Tulsa King with Terence Winter
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) · Dec 6, 2022
Barbarian with Zach Cregger
Barbarian (2022) · Nov 23, 2022
Ocean's Eleven with Ted Griffin
Ocean's Eleven (2001) · Nov 9, 2022
Donnie Darko with Richard Kelly
Donnie Darko (2001) · Oct 27, 2022
Dune with Eric Roth
Dune (2021) · Jul 19, 2022
Mission: Impossible with David Koepp
Mission: Impossible (1996) · Jul 5, 2022
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with Michael Waldron
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) · Jun 21, 2022
Turning Red with Julia Cho
Turning Red (2022) · Jun 7, 2022
Drive with Hossein Amini
Drive (2011) · May 24, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once with Daniels
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) · May 12, 2022
Prometheus with Jon Spaihts
Prometheus (2012) · May 10, 2022
Back To The Future with Bob Gale
Back to the Future (1985) · Dec 21, 2021
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Shane Black
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) · Dec 14, 2021
Dead Poets Society with Tom Schulman
Dead Poets Society (1989) · Nov 30, 2021
Point Break with W. Peter Iliff
Point Break (1991) · Nov 16, 2021
Last Night In Soho with Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Last Night in Soho (2021) · Nov 2, 2021
The Mitchells Vs The Machines with Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) · Oct 19, 2021
Brokeback Mountain with Diana Ossana
Brokeback Mountain (2005) · Oct 5, 2021
Mogul Mowgli with Riz Ahmed
Mogul Mowgli (2020) · Sep 23, 2021
1917 with Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Parasite (2019) · Sep 21, 2021
Sinister with C. Robert Cargill
Sinister (2012) · Sep 7, 2021
Contact with James V. Hart
Contact (1997) · Aug 24, 2021
Black Widow with Eric Pearson
Black Widow (2021) · Aug 19, 2021
Speed with Graham Yost
Speed (1994) · Aug 17, 2021
The Suicide Squad with James Gunn
The Suicide Squad (2021) · Aug 12, 2021
Sound Of Metal with Darius Marder
Sound of Metal (2020) · Apr 13, 2021
The Trial Of The Chicago 7 with Aaron Sorkin
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) · Mar 23, 2021
Wolfwalkers with Will Collins
Wolfwalkers (2020) · Mar 9, 2021
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) · Feb 23, 2021
Terminator 2: Judgement Day with William Wisher
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) · Jan 26, 2021
Inside Out with Meg LeFauve
Inside Out (2015) · Jan 13, 2021
Soul with Kemp Powers
Soul (2020) · Dec 26, 2020
Die Hard with Steven E de Souza
Die Hard (1988) · Dec 22, 2020
Carol with Phyllis Nagy
Carol (2015) · Dec 15, 2020
Edward Scissorhands with Caroline Thompson
Edward Scissorhands (1990) · Dec 1, 2020
Zodiac with James Vanderbilt
Zodiac (2007) · Nov 18, 2020
10 Things I Hate About You with Karen McCullah and Kirsten ‘Kiwi’ Smith
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) · Nov 11, 2020
The Nightmare Before Christmas with Caroline Thompson
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) · Oct 30, 2020
John Wick with Derek Kolstad
John Wick (2014) · Oct 20, 2020
The Simpsons Movie with Al Jean
The Simpsons Movie (2007) · Oct 6, 2020
In The Loop with Armando Iannucci
In the Loop (2009) · Sep 22, 2020
BlacKkKlansman with Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz
BlacKkKlansman (2018) · Sep 8, 2020
A Quiet Place with Beck/Woods
A Quiet Place (2018) · Aug 25, 2020
Moonlight with Barry Jenkins
Moonlight (2016) · Aug 11, 2020
Saint Frances with Kelly O'Sullivan
Saint Frances (2020) · Aug 1, 2020
The Post with Liz Hannah
The Post (2017) · Jul 28, 2020
Watchmen with David Hayter
Watchmen (2009) · Jul 14, 2020
Fighting With My Family with Stephen Merchant
Fighting with My Family (2019) · Jun 30, 2020
Attack The Block with Joe Cornish
Attack the Block (2011) · Jun 15, 2020