MNINS: Season 01, Episode 7 – Villains

Posted Sonlight Press MNINS

Welcome to the seventh episode of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we talk about villains and how necessary they are to a successful story. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes My Name Is Not Steve is a bi-weekly-ish podcast […]

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – An Epic Failure of Adaptation

Posted Pete Bauer Marketing, Review, Screenplay, story telling, Writing

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a perfect storm of predictability. If you decide to adapt a single novel into a movie trilogy, the middle story, the bridge, is the hardest one to pull off successfully. Having the middle story as part of a prequel makes the project a recipe for failure with The […]

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Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Adaptation Choices

Posted Pete Bauer Novel, Podcast, Review, Screenplay, story telling, Writing

“I have an image of Prim in a white room, strapped to a table, while masked, robed figures elicit those sounds from her.  Somewhere they are torturing her, or did torture her, to get those sounds.” In my last podcast I talked about the process of adapting a screenplay to a novel.  The opposite path […]

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