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This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Scott Frank, a screenwriter best known for movies such as Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, and A Walk Among the Tombstones. Scott’s new novel, Shaker, is written in the same vein as Elmore Leonard’s finest books and is out now. This week, Brian and Scott discuss the story of how Shaker came to be after more than 20 years (1:05) and why he has never had a better experience in the arts (56:31). Plus, Scott talks about how he manages a creative collaboration (13:53), battles his writing fears (36:23), and how things are finally lining up on his longtime pet project, Godless (59:30).
Topics mentioned:
- Shaker by Scott Frank
- Little Man Tate
- Minority Report
- A Walk Among the Tombstones
- Out of Sight
- Get Shorty
- The Wolverine
- Dead Again
- Hoke
- Marley & Me
- The Lookout
- Scott Frank’s BAFTA speech
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Front Page by Ben Hecht
- A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht
- Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne
- The Tim Ferriss Show
People mentioned:
- Scott Frank
- Elmore Leonard
- Donald Westlake
- Carl Hiaasen
- Peter Gethers
- Bill Goldman
- Lindsay Doran
- Sydney Pollack
- Derek Haas
- Ben Hecht
- Jodie Foster
- Steven Soderbergh
- Steven Spielberg
- John Gregory Dunne
- Craig Mazin
Twitter: @BrianKoppelman
iTunes: itunes.com/themoment
Podcast production by Jayson De Leon.