John Sayles
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Oct 30, 2026
Glen ReynoldsHOST
Our indie film classic this week is Lone Star, celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
Written and directed by John Sayles, this 1996 film stars Chris Cooper as Sam Deeds, a sheriff investigating the discovery of a skeleton in a Texas border town.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
The inquiry leads back to an earlier sheriff, the vicious Charlie Wade, played by Chris Christopherson, and to Sam's own father, Buddy, played in the past by Matthew McConaughey.
Glen ReynoldsHOST
Sam has an unusual problem for a detective.
Alison RosenHOST
You know who else was in it? The guy that played the neighbor is the guy who was in Matewan.
Daniel QuantzHOST
Yes, he's in all the John Taylor
Alison RosenHOST
movies.
Alison RosenHOST
Chris
Alex FerrariHOST
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
Alex FerrariHOST
John Sayles.
speaker_5NARRATOR
broadcasting from a dark windowless room in hollywood when we really should be working on that next draft it's the bulletproof screenwriting podcast showing you the craft and business of screenwriting while teaching you how to make your screenplay bulletproof and here's your host alex ferrari
Alex FerrariHOST
Welcome, welcome to another episode of the Bulletproof Screenwriting Podcast.
Tobias WaddenHOST
Directed by Louis Teague.
Tobias WaddenHOST
Written by John Sayles and Frank Ray Perilli.
Tobias WaddenHOST
Starring Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Vigazzo, Dean Jagger, Sidney Lassick, and some other people.
Tobias WaddenHOST
Henry Silva, you might know.
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Rebecca WaddenHOST
We watched a bunch of those.
Rebecca WaddenHOST
Why haven't I seen that one? Yeah.
Tobias WaddenHOST
And then John Sayles, I recognize his name as well, but I don't know from where...
Tobias WaddenHOST
No, that's a TV movie, I was gonna say.
MikeHOST
Yes, he is.
MikeHOST
Played by John Sayles.
MikeHOST
Yes,
JeremyHOST
but yeah, I thought that was funny.
Greg DickmanHOST
But prior to this, He directed Piranha.
Greg DickmanHOST
And John Sayles was also a writer on Piranha, John Sayles.
Greg DickmanHOST
And he and Joe Dante team up again for The Howling in 1981.
Greg DickmanHOST
But Joe Dante went on to have a very successful career and still continues to make films.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
okay, where
Max EvryGUEST
were we? This was concurrent with Spielberg and Toby Hooper writing the Poltergeist Treatment in London, as well as John Sayles' work in Hoboken on Night Skies.
Max EvryGUEST
So the late Goldberg wrote in his autobiography, Sit, Ubu, Sit, I love the way he worked.
Max EvryGUEST
Open to all ideas, generous with his praise, gentle with his criticisms.
46 MINS LATER
Max EvryGUEST
You know, it's like, I didn't even know who made this fucking thing.
Max EvryGUEST
Like, I had to like, you know, everything was like a detective work and, you know, I had to like become like a skip tracer of people and like, yeah, and...
Max EvryGUEST
Yeah, and it was just, like, months and months of just, like, spinning these plates and, like, just knowing, like, you know, I have to have John Sayles.
Max EvryGUEST
I have to have Rick Baker.
Nick NunziataHOST
He does.
Nick NunziataHOST
Screenplay by John Esposito with a polish by John Sales and then another polish by William Goldman.
Nick NunziataHOST
I know you're tripping.
Nick NunziataHOST
This was barely
Jordan WilliamsGUEST
So that's the biggest misconception that there is.
Kaliis SmithHOST
Well, we can blame John Sayles for that, our previous guest and filmmaker who wrote the movie Piranha, where they said, you can do whatever you want in this movie.
Kaliis SmithHOST
It's just got to be called Piranha.
Jordan WilliamsGUEST
Yeah.
Bob CostasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Marv, Marv, Marv, we all know your favorite movie of the summer was Ishtar, so this calls your credibility into some question.
Bob CostasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, these guys were not expert baseball players, but John Sayles, who wrote the screenplay and directed it, I thought captured the spirit of the times, and I thought it was a beautifully photographed movie, although his mistake was to try and tell so many individual stories, to tell 10 or 12 individual stories within the movie.
Bob CostasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So you like it or you don't like it? I liked it.
Bob CostasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Basically
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