Political Movies

John and Craig welcome back Liz Hannah to talk about her upcoming Netflix movie, All the Bright Places, and Hollywood’s often-frustrating reliance on IP. Particularly with non-fiction stories, has Hollywood warped journalistic ambitions? All of which serves as setup for another round of How Would This Be a Movie? (00:41:54), where we look at the Jeff Bezos phone hack, Carlos Ghosn, and a romantic political showdown. In our bonus segment for premium members (01:10:06), we discuss what is and is not okay to do with physical books, and situations where we’re willing to trade pixels for print. Links: Liz Hannah on Twitter and IMDb, and Scriptnotes episodes 242 and 359 The 2020 WGA Award nominees and winners Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows will be having a Launch Event: February 9, 2pm at Chevalier’s on Larchmont Scriptnotes, Episode 434 in which we discuss Knives Out MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson files for Chapter 7 and stock falls to zero, on MarketWatch All the Bright Places comes to Netflix on February 28 They Made a Movie Out of It by James Pogue John Gruber on the Jeff Bezos phone hack The New York Times on Carlos Ghosn’s escape and the Hollywood connection ‘Like a bad romcom’: couple run against each other in Irish election from The Guardian Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino Superieur Electrolytes Star Battle puzzles Wit’s End on Amazon John August on Twitter Craig Mazin on Twitter John on Instagram Outro by Lachlan Marks (send us yours!) Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli. Email us at [email protected] You can download the episode here. UPDATE 2-9-2020 The transcript for this episode can be found here.The post Political Movies first appeared on John August.