Avengers: A Conversation with Stephen McFeely & Christopher Markus
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
Release Date: 04/17/2019
A Conversation with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’re joined by screenwriting duo Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis discussing their journey writing films such as Five Feet Below, and the recent Netflix adaptation of the J.A. White fantasy-horror novel, Nightbooks.
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A Conversation with Dave Kajganich
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’re joined by The Terror writer, Dave Kajganich discussing the elements of scare. Kajganich is a screenwriter and producer. He has written several films in the horror genre, including 2009’s Blood Creek and the AMC network television series The Terror, as well as 2018’s Suspiria, on which he collaborated with Italian director Luca Guadagnino.
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Bringing the Undead Alive in Your Screenplay
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story the writers behind I AM LEGEND, TRUE BLOOD & THE WALKING DEAD discuss bringing the undead to life on screen.
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On Writing Horror
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story, horror writers Akela Cooper and Owen Egerton discuss their love for the genre, setups and payoffs, emotional scares, and inspirational moments from classic horror films.
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Writing to Direct Big Budget Blockbusters
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’ll join veteran screenwriters Shane Black and Ric Roman Waugh as they discuss what it takes to write and direct a big-budget blockbuster.
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Creating "The Blair Witch Project"
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’re diving behind the pages of the 1999 classic horror film The Blair Witch Project with screenwriter Daniel Myrick & his wife and research partner Julia Myrick.
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What Dreams May Come with Ron Bass
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’re joined by Academy award-winning screenwriter Ron Bass. Ron Bass sat down with Film Programmer Casey Baron to discuss his process of writing the film What Dreams May Come after a retrospective screening at the Austin Film Festival.
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On Writing City Slickers
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’re taking a trip out west with Babaloo Mandel and Lowel Ganz, the screenwriting duo behind the classic American Western comedy, CITY SLICKERS.
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The Art of Storytelling
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story Game of Thrones writing duo, David Benioff & D.B. Weiss joins Catherine Reitman & Sarah Green in conversation about the Art of Storytelling.
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On Writing Game of Thrones
Austin Film Festival's On Story Podcast
This week on On Story we’ll hear from television writers, David Benioff & D.B. Weiss on their process of adapting the Emmy Award-winning HBO television series GAME OF THRONES. Benioff and Weiss created GAME OF THRONES, the HBO adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s series of books ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. Under their supervision the series ran for 8 seasons, won 59 Emmys, and became one of HBO’s most popular programs.
info_outlineOn this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss the daunting process and high expectations behind writing the final two Avengers installments and the misconception that all superhero films are written for 13-year-old boys.
The two started their careers by writing 2004’s The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers. Their introduction to the Marvel universe was 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. They went on to write the two following films in the Captain America series; Winter Soldier and CIVIL WAR before being tasked with writing Avengers: Infinity War and the upcoming Avengers: End Game.
I spoke with Markus and McFeely about the collaborative nature of the Marvel Universe and the pressures behind writing the most anticipated movie of the decade.
Clips of Captain America: The Winter Soldier courtesy of MVL Film Finance, LLC
Clips of Avengers: Infinity War courtesy of MVL Film Finance, LLC
Clips of Iron Man courtesy of MVL Film Finance, LLC.