![]() ![]() I got to see you in person and shake your hand. I think I gasped audibly, because I loved your movie. John: Akela Cooper, you are also a WGA captain, who I first met on the picket line in front of CBS. M-three-ga-four-n is what’s going to happen. It is M-three-gan.Ĭraig: It’s M-three-gan. At a certain point, I’m like, oh no, I have lost the narrative on this. Go on.Īkela: I was going to say, that’s one of those writer things, where it’s just like, no, you guys, it’s really Megan. I think in some countries it may have been pronounced M-three-gan. Credits include Malignant, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Luke Cage, and the breakout hit M3GAN.Ĭraig: That’s pronounced me and three-gan.Ĭraig: If I know one thing in this world, it’s that that movie would have done even better had it been pronounced M-three-gan. John: Hey! Akela Cooper, you are a writer for film and TV. To help us look into all of this, we have a very, very special guest, Craig, Akela Cooper. It’s also a history lesson in the way things used to work and could maybe work again, with independent studios making things for distributors. ![]() This episode is for the dreamers, the builders, the doers, the absurdly rich. Today, I thought maybe we could offer some guidance for the billionaires and other folks who are looking for a safe and tranquil place to put their money, which is the film and television industry. Orcas have finally learned how to capsize their yachts. Today’s billionaires I think maybe have it even worse, because they get dragged on Twitter for buying Twitter and ruining Twitter. You perform a few hostile takeovers on public companies, bankrupt them after laying off thousands of workers, and somehow you’re the bad guy. You monopolize the railroads, you’re called a robber baron. John: This is Episode 603 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.Ĭraig, you and I both know that it’s never been easy to be extraordinarily wealthy in America. Heads up that today’s episode has just a little bit of swearing in it. The original post for this episode can be found here. ![]()
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