WGF Notes on Craft
October 14, 2010 We're attending a 6-week Noes on Craft series hosted by the Writers Guild Foundation. Each Wednesday a panel of working screemwriters discusses the preset topic. Tonight's topic: Premise and Concept, "concerned strictly with developing the initial idea behind a script - from generating compelling concepts to molding those concepts into complete scripts."
The panelists (L to R): moderator and Academy Award-nominated writer Dan Petrie Jr. (Beverly Hills Cop, The Big Easy, Turner & Hooch); Allan Loeb (The Switch, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 21); Ann Peacock (The First Grader, Nights in Rodanthe, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe screenplay); and Dan Pyne (Fracture, The Manchurian Candidate, The Sum of All Fears, Any Given Sunday, Doc Hollywood.
Ann Peacock is inspiring. Wish she'd work on more original ideas. Allan Loeb "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" is candid, approachable, prolific. Dan Pyne is super friendly, courteous and generous with his thoughts. Dan Petrie Jr. requires most of my patience to get through all of his