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Q&A: Screenwriter Dara Resnik Is Living Out Loud
The 'Home Before Dark' and 'The Horror of Dolores Roach' showrunner discusses her fearless approach to storytelling
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Q&A: Screenwriter VJ Boyd Knows How to Make You Squirm
From 'Justified' and 'Lincoln Rhyme' to, later this year, 'The Madness', the recently minted showunner talks his professional journey, creative…
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Cole Haddon
Q&A: Comics Legend Mark Waid Still Believes a Man Can Fly
With more than 1,500 comics behind him, from his beloved Superman to the iconic 'Kingdom Come' series, the writer reflects on his 40-year career and the…
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Q&A: Producer Ted Hope Wants a New Indie Revolution
From shaping the Nineties indie film movement to helping Amazon break into features, the producer has seen and done it all, he has despaired, and he is…
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Writer-Director John Lee Hancock Refuses to Be Pinned Down
The 'A Perfect World', 'The Blind Side', and 'Saving Mr. Banks' filmmaker discusses his 30-year career - from the evolution of his craft to Texas's…
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Q&A: Screenwriter Melinda Hsu Knows How to Change Hollywood
The 'Nancy Drew' and 'Tom Swift' showrunner discusses craft, storytelling, and transforming the film/TV business through the practice of kindness
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Q&A: Writer Charles Soule on the Roads Taken and Not Taken
The STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC architect discusses his unusual journey to becoming a comic book writer and author
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Q&A: Screenwriter Ryan J. Condal Is Playing with (Dragon) Fire
The 'HOUSE OF THE DRAGONS' co-creator/showrunner discusses breaking into the business, the mistakes he made as an emerging writer, and trying to…
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Q&A: Screenwriter Jed Mercurio on 30 Years of Thrilling Audiences
The creator of smash hits 'LINE OF DUTY' and 'BODYGUARD' reflects on what he's learned from his many triumphs - and failures - in British television
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Q&A: TV Vets Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin on 30 Years As a Writing Team
Consider this a masterclass on creative collaboration, showrunning, and surviving Hollywood
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Q&A: Screenwriter Eric Heisserer on the Burden of Knowing What You Want to Become
The scribe behind 'Arrival', 'Bird Box', and 'Shadow and Bone' talks the art of adaptation, homicidal houses, and the unique kind of hell that is…
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Q&A: Comic Book Legend John Romita Sr. Through the Eyes of His Son
John Romita Jr. breaks down everything he learned from his late father about storytelling, parenting, and the pursuit of greatness
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