Screenwriter Daniel Waters wrote the script in the hopes it would attract the attention of Stanley Kubrick.

If not-Nick Cage can cameo as a Superman that never existed in The Flash movie primarily because Kevin Smith loved to tell that story of that one screenwriter who couldn't stop putting giant mechanical spiders in his scripts, Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin is well within the realm of possibility.

I'm neither a comedian nor a screenwriter, but prolonged sequences of your characters laughing uproariously at jokes that are 50 years old feels like you're not making the points about counter-culture you think you are.

[Song Qing: "...Your screenwriter can add a chicken drumstick." 699: "Thank you, but human food is poison to us." Song Qing: "...That's a pity."] 🤣🤣🤣

Man, Zoochosis makes me so sad. It's so SO close to being good but it's just missing it, and I know it's probably because the main screenwriter passed away but MAN. Man. It just needed a little more.

Someday I'm gonna do the world's longest interview with screenwriter David S. Goyer about how he is lowkey the reason the superhero movie boom happened

Finished reading Capital Vices, a collection of different stories. The style is as though he is sitting in the room telling the stories. Not only is Conor a writer, playwright and screenwriter but an old-school raconteur, who can hold an audience. #authors

“Fanatical about the screenwriter [and creator of the series] Aaron Sorkin, Caputo [Milei’s chief strategist] has watched the whole of The West Wing between seven and nine times,” La Nación reported this year. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Argentina’s Javier Milei accused of plagiarising UN speech from West Wing

Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet

I’ll talk to my screenwriter friends here who have these amazing stories, and will want to say “that sounds great, markets are efficient so they’re gonna make that” and then instead see previews for Exploding Trucks 13

a man says it became personal with me in a close up

ALT: a man says it became personal with me in a close up

I will say this about "Wired," this "Samurai Baseball" sketch that the screenwriter had to write because they couldn't use any actual SNL bits is actually pretty good as far as "in-universe" comedy scenes go.