Hey, this is John. Today's episode has a few F-bombs just in the one cool thing section,

so if you're listening with your kids in the car, you can skip just that section.

Hello and welcome, my name is John John August and you're listening to

episode 631 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are

interesting to screen writers now there's a long history of bringing TV shows to

the big screen for example my own Charlie's Angels movies.

But today on the show, what happens when you go the other way and bring a big screen property

to television?

We'll talk to the co-creator and showrunner of the new Mr. and Mrs. Smith series about that

process, and the differences between telling a story

over eight hours rather than two. We'll also answer some listener questions on

samples, casting, and more. And in our bonus segment for premium members, we will talk about film school and fellowships.

But first Drew, we have some follow-up.

We do.

So in episode 629, we had someone write-in who is in a writing team and they were wondering if they could pass their original samples

onto their reps or if one person in the team could do that.

So Paul wrote in to say, I was in a similar situation in 2018.

My writing partner and I had been writing separately for years until we teamed up for one project.

That landed us a manager in LA and we sold our pilot to NBC.

But we knew going into the partnership that we both wanted careers in Hollywood and that meant getting a manager.

So our partnership had just happened to be fruitful and led to that goal.

So it was never an issue with us when we each presented separate works to our new manager.

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