Ben and Jake Write A Movie

Hey everyone, we've been busy working on other screenplays, but wanted to check in with you all to share a bit about the process we've been going through.

Join Ben and Jake today as the screenwriting partnership continues to talk movie industry shop and push forward with their original spec screenplay, LIVE. This may be the last episode for a beat so come with all your questions!

Join us today as screenwriters Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton continue to outline their new spec screenplay: HellFire.

Join Ben and Jake today as the screenwriting partnership continues to lay out the outline for their new spec screenplay.

Come join us for our interview with Charlie and Vlas Parlapanides, creators of Blood of Zeus on Netflix.

Join us today as we talk some shop and continue the journey into our new Spec, now with the working title of Hellfire!

Join us today as we talk a bit of shop before jumping in to the outline of our spec screenplay. There's a fun surprise reveal too!

Join us today as we talk a bit of industry and then dive right back into our spec screenplay outline.

Hey everyone! Join us today as we talk a little screenwriter shop.

Come join us today as we talk about screenwriting a bit and then keep pushing forward with our original spec screenplay.

Hey folks, join us today as we continue the journey of writing our spec screenplay.

Join us today as we continue to outline this awesome new Spec Screenplay. The ideas are coming together in an exciting way and it's feeling great.

Join us today a we re-imagine the prologue and act 1 of our original spec screenplay. Stop in for a minute or stay the whole time. And don't forget to SUBSCRIBE please :-)

Join us today as we continue to re-imagine our original Spec screenplay into something that continues to get better and better. And maybe talk a little shop as well...

Join us today as continue with our film industry chats and push forward on our original Spec Screenplay.

Join us today as we continue to press forward with our original spec screenplay -- along with answering a screenwriting question from one of our viewers.

Join us today for our 52nd episode as we dive back into the outline for our spec screenplay!

Join us today as we keep plugging away at our new spec screenplay

Join us today for our 50th episode of writing our spec screenplay.

It's time to push back into the outline of our new original spec screenplay.

Our last episode of the year before we head in to the holidays.

Join us as we discuss various screenwriting questions about process and the business. 

Here we go again, let's push forward on our original SPEC screenplay today, now having worked through the dilemma from the last two days and ready to make changes.

Join us today as we tackle the landmine of confusion Ben threw on the table yesterday.

Join us as we come back from the holidays to continue working on our original spec screenplay.

Join us for a talk with fantastic screenwriter, Daniel Kunka (12 Rounds and the upcoming Lift), about his process. And then we’ll get around to some continued work on our spec screenplay.

Join us as we move into our Act 2 outline for our spec screenplay, looking at the obstacles ahead.

Join us today as we push through the middle of the movie and start to outline the second half of our new spec screenplay.

Join us as we keep plugging away at our latest spec screenplay... outlining is so much fun!

It's been a while, but we're back at it after the Thanksgiving Holiday... Join us as we write our newest spec screenplay LIVE. Will we even remember what we were doing before the break?

Join us for what is sure to be an amazing interview with our mentor and friend, the amazingly talented Matthew Sand.

Join us today as we continue down the yellow brick road of Act 2.

Join us today as we take our conversation about villains from episode 35 and try to implement it into our act 2 outline.

Join us today as we move forward in our outline of our spec screenplay and start to work out the details of the Act 2 obstacles that need to get harder and harder the further we go.

Join us for our interview with our producing partner on The Princess and creator of the John Wick franchise as well as Nobody, Derek Kolstad, talking about his process. Then stick around for some more outlining of our new Spec Screenplay.

Moving forward in Act 2, we're about to need some serious on the run exposition moments to help the audience. But how do we make those scenes compelling?

Now we truly enter the slog of breaking down Act 2 in our outline. But hey, this is FUN!

Today we continue to outline Act 2 of the new spec screenplay we are writing -- along with a conversation about trying new things in both process and craft.

Today we plan to start outlining Act 2. Probably the hardest section to write of a movie.

Okay, so yesterday we didn't quite make it to our Act 1 climax -- but we're close... Maybe today?

Join us today as we outline toward our big climax of Act 1 in our new spec screenplay that we are writing LIVE! And as a bonus, we have an interview with screenwriter Dave Matalon talking about his process in approaching a new script.

Today we take our protagonist and thrust her into the adventure. Exciting!

Stay with us as we write our screenplay LIVE.

Join us as we come back from the weekend and continue our mission to write our spec screenplay. Our first 24 episodes have brought us into a deep outline and new discoveries are happening every day. What we will learn today???

Join us as we continue to flesh out the first act of our spec screenplay.

We discovered in yesterday's episode that we needed to flip some things in Act 1 to set up our protagonists properly... so let's do it!

Join us as we keep pushing ahead, bit by bit, on our spec screenplay.

We return to the livestream of our new spec screenplay!

We'll be talking something industry related for the first bit, then more outlining of our spec screenplay.

Yes, we're still going.