The first teaser for season five of Yellowstone has been released!
11.08.2022 - 20:09 / deadline.com
With must-see projects like Dopesick, Recount and Game Change under his belt, Danny Strong knows a thing or two about how to craft the perfect, ripped-from-the-headlines yarn that’s sure to generate Emmy heat. Here, the writer-director-actor (what, you don’t remember him from Saved by the Bell: The New Class?) gives a five-point masterclass for budding screenwriters.
Arthur Miller is one of my writing heroes, along with the films of Sydney Pollack and Sidney Lumet. They are big inspirations for me when I do these kinds of projects that are very intense and powerful, moralistic and about something. The perennial is All the President’s Men. The screenplay by William Goldman is sort of the North Star of powerful, immediate, true-life stories. It’s extremely tense and feels like a thriller without really having those thriller beats. Those four are definitely my biggest influences.
I think there’s a buy-in with the audience that they know this is not a word-for-word, moment-by-moment reconstruction of what actually happens. But I think the execution needs to always feel grounded or they won’t buy it at all. I’m specifically referring to true stories. The second you undermine that sense of what really happened, even if it is dramatized, it undercuts the entire piece. I just watched a true-life story — I’m not going to name it—that was executed in a heightened way where they very much wanted to make it fun and not make you feel like this is what really happened. It’s a heightened, dramatic retelling of events. I quite enjoyed it. But it lost the sense of dramatic tension because it had this underpinning of entertainment versus reality.
I’m not a perfectionist at all. I know I’m going to be rewriting a script 50 times, which I do.
The first teaser for season five of Yellowstone has been released!
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Is it a good idea to revel in nostalgia? The new Hulu series “Reboot” makes its own attempt at deconstructing what we love about certain TV favorites. Set two decades after a fictional sitcom’s run, this comedy shines a light on what happens when the inevitable return is commissioned.
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