19: Introducing: Let's Make A Sci-Fi

Dark Air with Terry Carnation

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Comedy Fiction, Comedy, Society & Culture, Fiction

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From the producers of Dark Air comes Lets Make A Sci-Fi: An eight-part adventure through the creative process as three comedians try writing a successful sci-fi pilot— with help from scientific experts and Hollywood screenwriting pros like Rainn Wilson (The Office), astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Vox Media's Emily VanDerWerff and director Neill Blomkamp (District 9). At the end, the audience will get to hear professional actors perform the script—for better or worse.

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0:00.0	Carnation Nation, dark air producer Chris Kelly here.
0:15.0	I'm commandeering this supernatural feed because I want to tell you about a new podcast
0:19.5	that is out this week that I'm pretty sure you'll appreciate.
0:23.9	It's called Let's Make a Sci-Fi and it's from CBC Podcasts and it's an eight part dock
0:28.8	you series about three comedians trying to write a legit science fiction pilot.
0:34.5	Not a parody, not a spoof, a real deal, sci-fi.
0:39.0	Call this good by moon so the asteroid hits the moon and it destroys the moon.
0:43.5	Tides are no more.
0:44.8	We don't have a moon.
0:48.2	And when they get stuck they get help from Hollywood experts like Neil Blomkamp, a creator
0:52.6	of District 9.
0:53.7	He helps them with their world building.
0:55.3	If the question is how do you come up with a world and then write it, it's always a core
0:59.4	idea that I can see clearly in my head.
1:01.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson helps them with their science.
1:04.8	Why are you doing this?
1:06.6	Have you already identified another earth?
1:08.8	And none other than Rain Wilson helps them with their dialogue and determines whether it's
1:13.7	too funny for science fiction.
1:15.9	Is it supposed to be funny that he keeps calling her number two?
1:18.9	Yes, so that stood out a lot to be hearing it out loud.
1:22.1	That's an episode six, but I've got the first episode queued up right now.
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