Scott Frank

I remember talking with Scott about it too, um-

... where...

No, Wampler.

I wasn't going to clarify

... that's true.

I don't know Scott Frank.

I just think he's extremely talented.

I started to recognize the credits of, oh, I seem to love these two movies, and those are both written by Bo Goldman.

This one's written by Scott Frank.

This one's written by Allan Ball.

This one's written by Steve Zaillian and Frank Pierson, and that's when I started to go back and then try to find any script that they had written and break down how they worked, how they got that magic captured on the page.

But I'm quite intrigued to maybe give it a go.

It's one of those shows that I know Scott Frank, who, um, wrote and directed the, the show, he's been trying to make it for years and it's ...

I think it's been ...

It, it's recent 1992, and there's been attempts to make this for years and years and years, and no one's thought, well, do we want a film or a TV show based on a girl who plays chess? Is that enough to really get all ...

And, and I think these two episodes do complement each other nicely because it's the start of her journey as a chess player and then the culmination of her triumph as a chess player at the end as well.

So let's get into it.

Episode two, Exchanges, written and directed by Scott Frank, as I said, and this episode is when she sort of starts to live beyond the orphanage and starts to fi- and, and has her first, uh, tournament.

So let's, um, go through the key points, key scenes for this, and then we'll go on to episode seven.

Something like that.

I could find, you know, I wrote, um, I wrote one big profile of, uh, of Scott Frank, the screenwriter.

And I had so much fun, fun doing that, that if I can find, um, Yeah, the thing with Scott Frank is there's not enough intrigue.

I need like Hollywood plus bad behavior.

The Jerry Bruckheimer story.

You know, just...

A blog exists largely to... provide educational resources to people outside the business trying to break into the business so it makes sense for them to be cognizant of successful managers you know and um you know so forth so and then also the buyers and then first timers like i would anytime it was noted like this is this is the person who broke into the business or this is someone who uh was a key grip who you know that was a job but they now are screenwriting because so i did that analysis you know every year um and then that is why uh it's become such a thing you know in 2012 i even started linking to all the articles i did in my blog so as a result of that writers would send me email me and say hey it never made the trades but i did sell a spec and i've got this that i can verify with you you know um i just got one yesterday the writer said yeah i sold one in 2021 i think it was and scott frank and stephen soda burger the producers on it so okay well you know And then also, too, there are certain managers primarily who would reach out sometimes and say, hey, there's this that's happening.

But mostly it's from the trades, yeah.

Okay, so when I was looking through the book, which you can get for free, which is the whole, first of all, before I go into this, get right out of the gate because people are going to be anxious.

I mean, it's godhead.

The Scott Frank script is incredible.

The direction's awesome.

The acting's perfect.

The chemistry works.

Everything about Out of Sight is great.

Oh, I'll tell you a funny thing about Scott Frank in just a second, but yeah, that one is perfect.

I've seen it dozens of times.

Here's the thing.

By the way, what's up, Scott Frank? How you doing, brother? I've

known you for about three years almost, and I don't find

you to be that way at all.

Queen's Gambit creator.

What was his name? Scott Frank.

Scott Frank.

Thank you.

Scott Frank was interviewed on Brian Koppelman's podcast.

I heard this like... a decade ago.

Scott Frank wrote Con Air, which I remember renting from Blockbuster and watching at my parents' house.

And Nick Cage, I have kind of like a Con Air, Nick Cage thing going on.