Scott Frank is a distinguished 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 today. 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 Frontpage 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
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