DAVID GOYER Screenwriting Lesson
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Uploaded by TheDialogue on Jul 11, 2007
David S. Goyer has a deliciously twisted mind. (They don't call him "The Prince of Darkness" for nothing.) And he knows how to bring comic book characters and superheroes to kicking, screaming, vengeful life, as he did in The Crow: City of Angels, the Blade series, and Batman Begins. His intense Batman screenplay, written with director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), resurrected the moribund Dark Knight franchise and confirmed his writing voice as a go-to source for a green light. Here, in this wry and surprising dialogue, Goyer reveals his tricks of the trade for how to intimidate a room full of studio executives, when to stand on principle, how to hook an actor's ego with killer character descriptions and dialogue, and why fear can pay the bills.
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@MrPenguinFeet : Stanley Tucci should play Steve Jobs.
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@lollerz16 : Yeah, Jonathan Nolan is clearly better, as a screenwriter I think is more talented than his brother.
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@StraightEdgeVideos Yeah, I know that. Doesn't say much for his original vision though. I think Jonathan Nolan is better. Goyer just has this rep for being an action guy and people employ him because they think he's a specialist.
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@lollerz16 : he's a screenwriter, that's why Nolan likes him. He turns Nolan's ideas in a screenplay.
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@lollerz16 LOL ...yeah im skeptical about that, its so weird
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His flash seems like it could be an interesting take on the character.
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@DaewooMassacre I don't think his work is particularly impressive. Definitely not prodigious. I know I'm just a youtube troll and all but I don't think he's that special. The Batman films I've heard he was used just for writing what Christopher Nolan thought up and his older films are just standards from the action or horror genres mostly. Think this guy is pretty overrated tbh.
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@broadsview you'll never make it. I bet you're working at starbucks right now
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his work speaks for itself so who the fuck knows
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Does anyone else find it difficult to believe that his High School teachers phoned up telling his Mum he should be a screenwriter. I don't buy that.
lollerz16 1 year ago 21
LOL, I like Goyer a lot too but Blade Trinity... man... that was disappointing, big time.
Calinks 2 years ago 4