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Five weeks in hospital. Five months of being away from your podcast feeds. Yes, listeners, it's been a weird time. But Script Apart is finally coming back in the coming days! Before new episodes start dropping, here's a quick note from Al, with some a couple of announcements. To submit your questions for our mailbag episodes, click here or email thescriptapartpodcast@gmail.com. You can also reach us on Instagram and TikTok . Got a screenplay that you'd like comprehensive feedback on? Head to scriptapart.com/coverage for notes, one-on-one Zoom development sessions with Al and more.…
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, scriptpart listeners, how are we all doing today? [SPEAKER_00]: It has been a while. [SPEAKER_00]: It's nice to be back in your podcast feeds after five months, maybe six months, you know, it's it's a bit of a blur. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm basically to cut to the chase of where I've been. [SPEAKER_00]: My partner was diagnosed with a stage two cancer called Hodgkin's lymphoma. [SPEAKER_00]: We went to the doctors one afternoon in April for what we thought would be just 30 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: popping in, popping out, but instead we didn't come home again for five weeks due to a 15 centimeter tumour in her left lung. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it's been a time to put it lightly, but she's doing brilliantly between the initial five weeks in hospital and the subsequent months of chemotherapy, the scripted part naturally had to come to a bit of an unplanned abrupt halt. [SPEAKER_00]: You've got new episodes hitting your feed in the coming days, and I wanted to hop on before I did with a couple of announcements.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first and foremost, I did want to be transparent with you about the cancer of all and what it means going forward. [SPEAKER_00]: We are coming back as I say in the coming days, but there may be weeks where we drop out of your feeds again. [SPEAKER_00]: That's just kind of like going to be dependent on treatment plans and medical schedules. [SPEAKER_00]: But we will always be back. [SPEAKER_00]: There will always be a script apart episode on the horizon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I appreciate you guys being here and exercising some patience with me throughout all this. [SPEAKER_00]: The second thing to announce is that I've just launched a brand new script-depart sub-stack newsletter that's going to be a home for essays and interviews and a whole lot more. [SPEAKER_00]: Basically, in this time where I'm back and forth to the hospital quite a lot and I'm not always by a microphone, it made sense to me to have [SPEAKER_00]: another place for scripted parts to continue to put out content and to hate that word content.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know what I mean? [SPEAKER_00]: To continue to bring you guys writing about film and screenwriting and life and everything in between. [SPEAKER_00]: The first piece which should be live by the time you're hearing this is an interview with the pit show runner, our Scott Gemmall, talking about the show's upcoming third season [SPEAKER_00]: I had to thread in some personal reflections on the strangeness of spending a ton of time late last year on the set of a fake hospital for that HBO medical drama I reported for Empire magazine on the making of their second season only to promptly end up living in a real hospital but over a month.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything I observed and how it changed my relationship for the show in ways I'm still figuring out. [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, the address for that sub-stack is script-depart.substack.com. [SPEAKER_00]: The address one more time is script-depart.substack.com. [SPEAKER_00]: announcement number three is that we are doing a mail bag episode for the very first time. [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is off limit skies. [SPEAKER_00]: Any questions about the show, about this summer's movies, about the state of the movie business, about me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all game. [SPEAKER_00]: Get your questions in by hitting the link in today's show notes. [SPEAKER_00]: You can also drop me a DM on Instagram. [SPEAKER_00]: Or you can email the script apart podcast at gmail.com. [SPEAKER_00]: I thought this would be a fun way to kind of ease back into posting episodes. [SPEAKER_00]: And also, you know, it was our sixth birthday in June if you can believe it. [SPEAKER_00]: And obviously, I wasn't really celebrating much of the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this might be a fun thing to do to kind of belatedly mark the sixth birthday of script apart. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, get your questions in guys. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited to read them. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that's all from me. [SPEAKER_00]: If you are a screenwriter in need of coverage on your screenplay, you can hit me up at scriptapart.com forward slash coverage, that service is back up and running offering comprehensive notes and actionable suggestions on your screenplays.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the rest of you though, I appreciate you listening. [SPEAKER_00]: I am so excited to be back. [SPEAKER_00]: I really do appreciate your patience. [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate all of you who messaged me to ask where the show was, because it was a reminder that there is a real community that has formed around this show. [SPEAKER_00]: And that is a thing that fills me with great happiness. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, thank you everyone for listening in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm excited for you guys to hear our new episodes. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back in a couple of days with the writers of Tony, the new Anthony Bourdain, Biopic. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you then, guys. [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again.
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Script Apart with Al Horner
by Script Apart · English · Film & TV
A podcast about the first-draft secrets behind great movies and TV shows. Each episode, the screenwriter behind a beloved film shares with us their initial screenplay for that movie. We then talk through what changed, what didn’t and why on its journey to the big screen. Hosted by Al Horner and produced by Kamil Dymek.
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