Write Your Screenplay Podcast

Write Your Screenplay Podcast

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Rather than looking at movies in terms of "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs down" Award Winning Screenwriter Jacob Krueger discusses what you can learn from them as a screenwriter. He looks at good movies, bad movies, movies we love, and movies we hate, exploring how they were built, and how you can apply those lessons to your own writing. More information and full archives at WriteYourScreenplay.com 831588

The Brutalist
The Brutalist Part 2: Do You Need an Active Main Character?
The Brutalist (2024) · Mar 28, 2025
A Real Pain
A Real Pain: Building Characters With Vignettes
A Real Pain (2024) · Jan 30, 2025
A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown: Writing The Biopic
Magnolia
Ensemble Pieces
Magnolia (1999) · Dec 13, 2024
Between the Temples
Between the Temples - Alternative Forms of Structure
Monkey Man
Monkey Man: Expressionism in Action Movies
Monkey Man (2024) · May 11, 2024
Poor Things
Poor Things: Theme and Meaning
Poor Things (2023) · Mar 30, 2024
Past Lives
Past Lives: Genre and Premise
Past Lives (2023) · Jan 27, 2024
Dream Scenario
Dream Scenario: Passive Main Characters
Dream Scenario (2023) · Jan 17, 2024
Saltburn
Saltburn: A Master Class in Tone
Saltburn (2023) · Nov 25, 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapting a True Life
Oppenheimer
Barbenheimer: The Art of Adaptation
Oppenheimer (2023) · Aug 9, 2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3: How to Write Flashbacks and Exposition
A Man Called Otto
A Man Called Otto: Character Building
A Man Called Otto (2022) · May 25, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once PART 2: The Opening Sequence
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All At Once: Evelyn’s Journey is the Screenwriter’s Journey
Triangle of Sadness
Triangle Of Sadness: Meaning, Structure and the Power of Location in Screenwriting
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees Of Inisherin: Allegory, Stakes and Structure
Avatar
Avatar: The Way of Water VS. Avatar - Spectacle and Structure
Avatar (2009) · Jan 11, 2023
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water VS. Avatar - Spectacle and Structure
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction: A Simple Trick For Shaping Your Audience’s Expectations
Pulp Fiction (1994) · Oct 26, 2022
Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick - All Writing Is Political
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) · Jul 12, 2022
Dune
Dune: Exposition Is Killing Your Screenplay
Dune (2021) · Nov 13, 2021
One Night in Miami...
One Night in Miami: Writing for Political Change
The Little Things
The Little Things: How to Write a Trick Ending
The Little Things (2021) · Feb 20, 2021
Parasite
Parasite: Theme, Tone, and Structure
Parasite (2019) · Mar 23, 2020
Little Miss Sunshine
Parasite vs. Little Miss Sunshine
Parasite
Parasite vs. Little Miss Sunshine
Parasite (2019) · Mar 3, 2020
The Irishman
The Irishman: What’s Your Character’s “Thing”?
The Irishman (2019) · Feb 14, 2020
Mandy
MANDY: An Interview with Linus Roache
Mandy (2018) · Dec 10, 2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: How To Pitch a Work For Hire Project
Roma
Roma: Turning Your Life Story Into A Screenplay
Roma (2018) · Mar 5, 2019
BlacKkKlansman
Black KKKlansman: Adapting a True Life Story
BlacKkKlansman (2018) · Oct 19, 2018
Hereditary
Hereditary: The Power of the First and Last Image
Hereditary (2018) · Jul 10, 2018
Deadpool 2
Deadpool 2: Where Tone Meets Genre
Deadpool 2 (2018) · Jun 28, 2018
A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place Part 2: Dialogue, Action, & The Theme of Your Screenplay
A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place: The Secrets Of Screenplay Format - Part 1
A Quiet Place (2018) · May 8, 2018
The Florida Project
The Florida Project: Structure Without Structure
Star Trek Beyond
Find The Emotional Core Of Your Screenplay
Star Trek Beyond (2016) · Feb 24, 2018
Coco
COCO Podcast: Part 1
Coco (2017) · Dec 9, 2017
mother!
Mother! Podcast
mother! (2017) · Oct 7, 2017
War for the Planet of the Apes
War for the Planet of The Apes Podcast with Writer Mark Bomback
Annabelle: Creation
Annabelle: Creation
The Big Sick
The Big Sick Podcast
The Big Sick (2017) · Aug 26, 2017
Atomic Blonde
Podcast: Atomic Blonde
Atomic Blonde (2017) · Aug 11, 2017
Saving Private Ryan
Dunkirk Podcast: Dunkirk vs Saving Private Ryan
Dunkirk
Dunkirk Podcast: Dunkirk vs Saving Private Ryan
Dunkirk (2017) · Jul 29, 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-man Homecoming Part 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-man Homecoming
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman: The Structure and The Politics of The Action Blockbuster
Wonder Woman (2017) · Jun 16, 2017
Alien: Covenant
Alien Covenant: Setting Up A Trick Ending
Alien: Covenant (2017) · Jun 8, 2017
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2
How to Be a Latin Lover
How To Be a Latin Lover: Turning Sadness Into Salsa
Colossal
Colossal: Externalizing the Internal
Colossal (2017) · May 4, 2017
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
Get Out
Get Out
Get Out (2017) · Mar 23, 2017
Inception
Inception
Inception (2010) · Mar 16, 2017
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY - What's Your Structural Focus?
Manchester by the Sea
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA - Tests, Flashbacks & Characters Who Don't Change
La La Land
La - La - Land
La La Land (2016) · Feb 8, 2017
Arrival
Arrival: The Writer's Journey
Arrival (2016) · Dec 8, 2016
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange - Feeding The Genre Monster
Doctor Strange (2016) · Nov 13, 2016
Don't Breathe
Don't Breathe - The Write Your Screenplay Podcast
Don't Breathe (2016) · Oct 27, 2016
Hell or High Water
Hell Or High Water
Sully
Sully - Does Your Movie Need An Antagonist?
Sully (2016) · Sep 22, 2016
Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad: Script Soup
Suicide Squad (2016) · Aug 16, 2016
Swiss Army Man
Swiss Army Man: The Bad Screenplay Experiment
Swiss Army Man (2016) · Jul 14, 2016
Captain America: Civil War
Part 2 - Captain America Civil War - How to Build a Superhero Movie
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War - How to Build the Superhero Movie - Part 1
Everybody Wants Some!!
Everybody Wants Some: Structure Without Structure - Part 2
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: WTF is Wrong with WTF?
10 Cloverfield Lane
10 Cloverfield Lane: Everything Possible Must Happen
Room
Room: What's On The Other Side Of Your Wall?
Room (2015) · Mar 10, 2016
The Big Short
Spotlight & The Big Short: The Difference Between Plot & Structure
The Big Short (2015) · Mar 5, 2016
Deadpool
Deadpool: Breaking The Rules
Deadpool (2016) · Feb 19, 2016
New Low
D.I.Y. Filmmaking: One Man's Journey to Sundance & Beyond
New Low (2010) · Jan 21, 2016
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood: Externalizing The Internal
The Martian
The Martian: Bring Your Script Home
The Martian (2015) · Oct 8, 2015
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Diary of A Teenage Girl: The Magic of Tone
The Tree of Life
Tree Of Life: Alternative Forms of Structure
The Tree of Life (2011) · Aug 26, 2015
Tangerine
Tangerine: All You Need is a Want and an iPhone!
Tangerine (2015) · Aug 20, 2015
Trainwreck
Trainwreck: The Game of the Scene
Trainwreck (2015) · Aug 6, 2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Me, Earl and The Dying Girl: Two Levels of Structure
Inside Out
Inside Out: Character, Archetypes and The Psychology of Revision
Inside Out (2015) · Jul 10, 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max Fury Road: The Engine of Structure
The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie & The Dance of Creativity
The Lego Movie (2014) · May 7, 2015
Furious 7
Furious 7: Feeding The Genre Monster
Furious 7 (2015) · Apr 13, 2015
Birdman
Birdman: Writing A Screenplay Is Like Writing a Poem
Birdman (2015) · Mar 25, 2015
Fifty Shades of Grey
50 Shades of Grey: Could It Have Been a Great Script?
American Sniper
American Sniper: Is Your Adaptation Running Toward The Truth?
American Sniper (2014) · Feb 21, 2015
Into the Woods
Into The Woods: Navigating The Development Process
Into the Woods (2014) · Dec 28, 2014
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy: It's a Metaphor!
Blue Ruin
What's the Worst Thing That Can Happen?: Blue Ruin, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Alien
Blue Ruin (2014) · Jun 3, 2014
Frozen
Frozen: Do You Want to Build A Screenplay?
Frozen (2013) · Apr 29, 2014