Pen Names and Divine Intervention

This week, John is a bit under the weather, so Craig takes over moderator duties as they tackle four listener questions: ➤ When you spec a script based on a producer’s idea, who owns it? ➤ And on that topic, do producers ever really buy an idea? ➤ How much divine intervention — or other coincidence — can a movie support? ➤ How do pen names work for screenwriters? In follow-up, Clive Barker is writing — but not directing — that Amazon Studios project. John regrets the error. And in verb-related news, metal can’t pound, but it can pound flat, oddly enough. All this and two cool things in this week’s Scriptnotes. LINKS: Plague Inc. for iOS English Verb Classes and Alternations by Beth Levin Researcher’s findings in the Amazon pit him against Noam Chomsky The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls by Jason Turbow Robin Ventura vs. Nolan Ryan ScanCafe INTRO: Godzilla intro OUTRO: What’s My Name cover by VanJess You can download the episode here: AAC. UPDATE 6-28-12: The transcript of this episode can be found here. The post Pen Names and Divine Intervention first appeared on John August.