Write On: A Screenwriting Podcast

Write On: 'Pachinko' Showrunner Soo Hugh

Sep 16, 2024

“Sometimes I think [the show Pachinko] is almost too personal. I feel like every show, you look at it and say, ‘How much of myself is in this show?’ I did a show [The Whispers] about children who were communicating with an invisible alien force and somehow, I had to figure out how to make it part of me as well. We...

Write On: 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Writers Al Gough & Miles Millar

Sep 10, 2024

“I think what Tim [Burton] does is he's always trying to simplify. That’s the essence of a classic filmmaker. People think he's wild and crazy and does all these things. His movies are brilliantly composed frames and he's always looking for simplicity. All of his big movies, they're really family dramas dressed up...

Write On: 'Sunny' Co-Creator & Showrunner Katie Robbins

Aug 30, 2024

“I think that Sunny [the robot], as a character, is kind of emblematic of this conundrum we have with A.I. In one scene she is cute and warm and is serving Suzie's [Rashida Jones] emotional needs and is brimming with potential. And that's really enticing. And then in the next scene, she is diabolical, and is going...

Write On: 'Fallout' Co-Creator & Showrunner Graham Wagner

Aug 15, 2024

Almost all the characters [in Fallout, the TV show] are brand new… We really took the world of Fallout that had been built up and iterated upon by other video game writers over the years and we wanted to do our own version of it rather than retell any version that someone else has already done. Our attitude was...

Write On: 'Cobra Kai' Showrunners Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg

Jul 18, 2024

“We were all six or seven years old when [the first Karate Kid movie] came out. So all of us saw it in the theater and I think for all of us, it was probably the first time any of us had seen a movie where there was such an amazing twist that happened. The whole time, we’re thinking that Daniel LaRusso's not...