Akiva Goldsman
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Sep 16, 2026
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Some of these would happen after this movie.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Um, she actually eventually left the project though because Griffin Dunne- ... kind of kept wanting to take the movie on more of a dark path, and was replaced by two writers, Akiva Goldsman, who returned for this one, and Adam Brooks.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Uh, Dunn wanted to make the film darker, as I mentioned, with might ex- might explain some of the tonal issues.
Sophie VershbowHOST
Ah.
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Sophie VershbowHOST
Mm-hmm
Rudi GreenbergHOST
... kind of working in series, has worked with both of them before, so kind of understandable why she would get this gig.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
Akiva Goldsman, who I mentioned earlier, who had a credit on the original Practical Magic, uh, also gets a credit on this script.
Rudi GreenbergHOST
He won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, also has done the aforementioned Batman Forever that Nicole Kidman was in and, uh, another adaptation of The Da Vinci Code.
BrianHOST
Yeah, I, I couldn't see that either.
BrianHOST
And another director considered was Akiva Goldsman, who did, like, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.
BrianHOST
[chuckles] It was just hard to believe either of those people directing this movie.
AshwinHOST
Yeah.
Joey BraccinoHOST
That's the beauty of Star Trek.
Joey BraccinoHOST
There isn't one way to be a fan." And- I, I, I feel that way as someone who, whose, whose version of Star Trek that got them into really diving deep into Star Trek was the most recent iterations that the Akiva Goldsman, um, was doing with Discovery and Strange New Worlds and the Picard show on Paramount Plus, right? Like, I started watching Discovery during the pandemic and I just like chewed through all of those seasons that were available.
Joey BraccinoHOST
And, you know, Strange New Worlds has kind of brought me back to the original in a, in a fantastic way as to...
Joey BraccinoHOST
And it's gotten me to go back, and I re-watched all the movies too.
Millie De ChiricoHOST
Yeah.
Casey O'BrienHOST
Screenplay by Wye- Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks.
Casey O'BrienHOST
It's based on the book Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman.
Casey O'BrienHOST
And there's a few of these books.
BrianHOST
But, I mean, it could have been.
BrianHOST
I mean, I called Akiva Goldsman.
BrianHOST
I suggested he might be a liar in that one.
BrianHOST
Also, we're recording fairly close to the release of that one, even though this is coming out months later.
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BrianHOST
I rescind my demand that Paramount end everything.
BrianHOST
the Strange New Worlds experiment by not doing Star Trek Year One.
BrianHOST
I don't know if you heard about this, Kristen, but Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonzo Myers had pitched continuing Strange New Worlds as Star Trek Year One, the first year of Captain Kirk's mission, which apparently would have not been the first season of the original series, which whatever.
BrianHOST
Because I think we deserve an episode where Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock are in a Love Island situation.
Matt HannahHOST
Yeah.
HannahHOST
So the screenplay for the movie is written by Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett, and Kelly Marcel, based off the 2021 novel, The Book of Magic, which is the fourth book in the Practical Magic series.
Matt HannahHOST
Huh.
Matt HannahHOST
Okay.
Marc FarquharHOST
Mm.
Paul DayHOST
According to co-writer Akiva Goldsman, the director's cut was a darker take on the material, and due to the marketing of Warner Brothers and extensive editing, it finally ended up a different version.
Paul DayHOST
Goldsman lost his copy of the original cut, like I said.
Darren HorneHOST
[laughs]
Brett ArnoldHOST
... artfully thought of.
Brett ArnoldHOST
I mean, it's Akiva, Akiva Goldsman, famously kind of a hack screenwriter but has written some good stuff.
Jesse HassengerHOST
Yes.
Brett ArnoldHOST
He's back, and it just has that same shaggy quality that the first one has where it's just, like, jumping from thing to thing, and it goes on different-
StephHOST
Mm-hmm.
AlexHOST
Um, and the, the writer, Akiva Goldsman, who wrote the, the, uh, the sequel, he said, "I actually really think that Vincent, who doesn't quite make it into the movie but sort of almost made it into the movie, is a really interesting-
StephHOST
Hmm
AlexHOST
... character.
Brose AvardGUEST
They re- they reimagined the visuals as I imagined it in my head when I read the book.
Benjamin NorrisHOST
The screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman, who did the first film, but then also they brought in a couple of other directors-
Brose AvardGUEST
Just quickly, you know what else Akiva Goldsman wrote?
Benjamin NorrisHOST
Batman.
Brose AvardGUEST
Bat- Batman Forever, Batman and Robin.
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