Hello and welcome my name is John August. My name is Craig Mason and you are

listening to episode 629 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and

things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, should you break up with a producer you like but who doesn't seem to be moving the project forward?

How should a writing team discuss their individual work?

And when is it okay to say no to inclusive casting?

We'll answer these and other difficult questions, plus a new round of the three-page challenge,

where we look at listeners' pages and give our honest and only semi-filtered feedback. And in our bonus segment for premium members,

we'll delve into some advice we'd love to give ourselves.

That would be interesting.

Yeah, simply got some time travel,

we got some hypotheticals, all that kind of stuff.

But we got a follow-up first. This first minute follow-up is, Craig, you had asked last week, how many of those, how would this be a movie,

things that became actual movies

had we recommended so I think Drew you did the research on this. Yep I went through

of the 12 that were actually made for them were ones you said could be a movie.

Okay, so offhand that doesn't seem like a great average. I mean baseball, it's excellent.

So now my new question is, of the eight movies that we said shouldn't be made, how many of them were considered

successful?

Meaning were we right anyway?

There's some asterisks on that because like Zola was one that you said no but there's something to take from it so well I guess that's not so much of an asterisk but um yeah there's another one the Kamaa Mobley story that you had said no not quite that that was the one where the girl realized

that the woman she thought was her mother her whole life wasn't actually her

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