“Inside the Twisted Minds: How Johnny Wickham and Mike Capes Turned Chilling Fears into Hilarious Thrills in SYS 529”
Johnny Wickham
Well, I would say that like, the big thing is getting anybody to read it in the first place. I mean, you send it down, you’re like, yeah, I’ll send out 10 people and nobody will get back to you. Mike likes to say the best the best way to get somebody to leave you alone is to send them your screenplay.
Mike Capes
It’s so true. It’s so true. You just get completely ignored. Yeah, you know, we had table reads during COVID because that was a time you could kind of get people on Zooms. And that was really helpful for us to bring some actors in the room and sort of get notes, do a lot of our own sort of question and answer during these table reads. And then this one, you know, we had table reads, but this one kind of we got really lucky. In a lot of senses, as any screenwriter knows, it was a very rare way that it this happened, you know, we wrote it after a month and then word about it got through friends, and then we got to someone who wanted to read it. And then the next week, we were making it.
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