How would this be a movie?

John and Craig look at three current news stories from a screenwriter’s perspective, discussing how each lends itself to becoming a movie. Would FIFA’s Stepp Blatter make a better Coen Brothers hero or a Sorkin villain? Could the Large Hadron Collider lend itself to a romantic comedy? Is there even a movie to make about campus sexual politics and academic freedom? Also discussed: the trap of “Do what you love.” Links: A timeline on the FIFA scandal Large Hadron Collider turns on ‘data tap’, and the Large Hadron Collider on Wikipedia Star Trek’s Prime Directive and Zefram Cochrane on Wikipedia Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe by Laura Kipnis Title IX Investigation Opened Against Female Northwestern Professor Over Column, Tweet In the Name of Love “Carasc” Tibetan Bridge So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport Game of Thrones by Telltale Games Traveling back into the past to trade for present gain by Tyler Cowen Outro by Scriptnotes listener Rajesh Naroth (send us yours!) You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3. UPDATE 6-12-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.The post How would this be a movie? first appeared on John August.