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Jeffrey Belanger, screenwriter of Loose Women joins Franklin this week to chat about how judging movies by their covers as a child began his lifelong his interest in movies, writing parody films in middle school, what inspired him to write Loose Women, and being okay with making mistakes.

Put your spurs on and rustle up the latest Black List Table Reads script, Loose Women by Jeffrey Belanger. The Loose Women are an infamous gang of sharpshooters led by Pistol Dick Pete Daly, but when the Women have a falling out with Pete, they're forced to discover just what sort of gang they want to be. Loose Women stars Robin Weigert, TaiVon McKinney, Sandy Martin, Lee Garlington, Sarah Jane Morris, Bailey Noble, Rya Kihlstedt, John Billingsley, John Piper Ferguson, and Robert Baker, and it's narrated by Evan Todd.

On this week's episode of The Black List Table Reads, Franklin chats with Kristina Lauren Anderson, screenwriter of Forever Jiayang, 1937 and the No. 1 script on the 2014 Black List, Catherine the Great. They’ll discuss Kristina's transition from quiet theater kid to writer, the importance of research, and how did Catherine happen. Then, Franklin chats with Isaac Adamson, screenwriter of the No. 1 script on the 2015 Black List, Bubbles. They'll discuss his fiction writing career, his transition into script writing, and what on Earth led him to write a biopic about Michael Jackson's chimp Bubbles.

This week, The Black List Table Reads brings you a powerful and poignant script set in China during the Nanking Massacre. “Forever Jiaying, 1937” by Kristina Lauren Anderson, follows an American woman who moves to Shanghai to be with her husband, unaware that her world is about to be upended. Forever Jiaying stars Jessika Van, Georgina Haig, Erin Cummings, Amy Hill, Kerr Smith, Ryan McPartlin, Patrick Fabian, Chris Pang, Tom Choi, and Cooper Thornton.

On this bonus episode of The Black List Table Reads, Franklin chats with Josh Singer, the writer of Oscar-nominated sensation Spotlight. They’ll discuss Josh’s beginnings in theater, writing for The West Wing, and how working on The Fifth Estate led to Spotlight.

No one knows story better than Lindsay Doran. Lindsay has been a substantial part in some of the most iconic films of the last four decades, everything from This Is Spinal Tap to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In Part 2 of Franklin’s interview with Lindsay, she discusses the production of Stranger Than Fiction, making movie deals when cell phones were brand new, how Lindsay became involved with Positive Psychology, and what it can teach us about storytelling.

Jody screenwriters Jason Wilborn and Chris Kyle join Franklin this week to talk about how they met because Chris was roommates with Jason's future wife, coming up with the idea of Jody as the love story they we wanted to tell, and why writing in a room together helped

We have another great script this week on The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard. Jody by Jason Wilborn and Chris Kyle is a great way to bridge the gap between the NFL's Conference Championships and Sunday's Super Bowl. A Black List reader wrote about the script, "This script fires pitch perfectly on all cylinders. From start to finish, this script surprises. Its characters and plot throwing left right punches making for edge of your seat drama." Jody stars Ed Quinn, Ashley Greene, Constance Zimmer, Emily Osment, Michael Dempsey, Jonathan Goldstein, Aimee Teegarden, Matt Barr, Carter Hastings, JR Lemon, and Cooper Thornton.

On a bonus episode of The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard, we are proud to present a live script reading of Jacob Isser's "Hosers," a half-hour television pilot recorded at The Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City. Hosers stars Jason Biggs, Bruce Altman, Katrina Bowden, Nick D'Agosto, Rumer Willis, Amy Rutberg, Geoffrey Arend, Anthony Ramos, Judy Gold, and is narrated by Franklin Leonard.

On a bonus interview episode, Franklin chats with screenwriter Charles Randolph about his 2016 Academy Award nominated screenplay The Big Short (directed by Adam McKay and now in theaters). Then, Franklin talks with screenwriter Billy Ray (2014 Academy Award nominee for Captain Phillips and 2014 Black List Labs Mentor) about his most recent project, Secret in Their Eyes, which he wrote and directed.

Jill Isaacs, screenwriter of Angel's Flight and 2015 Feature Writer Access Project Honoree joins Franklin this week to chat about how Angel's Flight is her homage to Chinatown with a Latin twist, her first cinematic epiphany, and why you should write at your own pace.

Welcome back to The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard for Part Two of the action packed Angel's Flight by screenwriter Jill Isaacs. Angel's Flight stars Ignacio Serricchio, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Anne Heche, Richard Cabral, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Trucco, W. Earl Brown, Rod McLachlan, Alex Quijano, and Tara Sands.

The first Black List Table Reads script of 2016 is so action packed that it comes in two parts! Angel's Flight from screenwriter Jill Isaacs has been described by a Black List reader as "An LA origin story in the high noir tradition of Chinatown. A spectacular script that is as ambitious as it is satisfying." It stars Ignacio Serricchio, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Anne Heche, Richard Cabral, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Trucco, W. Earl Brown, Rod McLachlan, Alex Quijano, and Tara Sands.

The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard is starting 2016 with a special twofer interview episode with screenwriters Phyllis Nagy and Emma Donoghue. First comes a conversation with Indie Spirit Award nominated and New York City Film Critics Circle winning screenwriter Phyllis Nagy is the screenwriter of Carol, which itself is nominated for 5 Golden Globes and has won many Critics' Choice Awards. Adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, it's a story about a department store clerk who dreams of a better life and falls for an older married woman. Then, Franklin chats with Emma Donoghue, Golden Globe nominated screenwriter of Room, which she adapted from her own Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel. The film is about a five-year-old and his mother escaping from a room in which they have been trapped for the child's entire life and is also nominated for 3 Golden Globes.

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Happy New Year from The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard! On a bonus episode, Franklin sits down to chat with Cary Fukunaga, screenwriter and director of Beasts of No Nation, director of the critically acclaimed first season of True Detective for which he won an Emmy, and writer/director of Sin Nombre. They'll discuss the process of adapting Beasts of Nation from a novel to a major motion picture now available to watch on Netflix.

Mickey Fisher and Brian Depetris are the screenwriters of The Winter King. They join Franklin this week to chat about how they met playing Santa Claus, coming up with the idea for the script walking around New York City on Valentine's Day, and their actual writing process.

The Holiday season is upon us and we have the perfect thing for you here at The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard this week as we present the action-comedy The Winter King from screenwriters Mickey Fisher and Brian Depetris. Mickey and Brian met each other while working as Santa Claus at a major department store in New York City and hatched the idea for the script while walking around NYC on Valentine's Day. The Winter King stars Jason Ritter, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Darren Ritchie, Kristen Johnston, Gabriel Mann, Brandon Scott, Lori Alan, Abraham Benrubi, and Cooper Thornton. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This week Franklin chats with two screenwriters from the other side of the pond. First he sits down to chat with Abi Morgan, screenwriter of Suffragette, the story of Maud Watts played by Carey Mulligan, a working wife and mother whose life is changed forever by the growing suffragette movement in early 20th century Britain. Then, Franklin chats with Alex Garland, the writer/director of A24 Film's April release Ex Machina starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander.

Kimberly Barrante, screenwriter of Celeritas, joins Franklin this week to chat about how Celeritas started as her very first screenplay for a Screenwriting 101 class, writing a Sci-Fi novel titled "New Novel" as a child, and why talking to people could essentially lead to your next collaborator.

Season 2 of the new and improved The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard continues this week with the Sci-Fi/Drama earmovie Celeritas by screenwriter Kimberly Barrante. When a missing astronaut crash lands forty years after he launched having not aged a day, his elderly twin brother helps him escape the NASA scientists hunting him. As the government closes in, neither brother is who they claim to be. Our presentation stars Jake Abel, Justin Chatwin, Alexandra Daddario, Christine Estabrook, Matthew Del Negro, Kevin Weisman, Adam Grimes, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Matthew Jaeger, and Cooper Thornton.

In celebration of the 68th anniversary of the start of the Hollywood Blacklist, Franklin sits down to chat with John McNamara, screenwriter of Trumbo. They discuss if it was intimidating for John to write a screenplay about Dalton Trumbo, arguably one of the greatest screenwriters of all time, learning Trumbo's voice through trial and error, and what helped guide him toward the story he wanted to tell with the film.

Jared Frieder, screenwriter of Three Months, joins Franklin this week to chat about how Three Months came to be, choosing comedy as a vehicle for a personal story, and why it's important for writers to be constantly creating from a personal space.

Welcome to Season 2 of the new and improved The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard. Expect a full earmovie in its entirety with superb sound design. There wasn't a dry eye in the house during our recording of Jared Frieder’s moving dark comedy, Three Months: the story of a queer Miami teen who gets exposed to HIV, and must wait for his diagnosis. Three Months won the Austin Film Festival Best Comedy Screenplay award in 2014, and for good reason! Our presentation stars Mindy Sterling, Ritesh Rajan, Jee Young Han, Philip Casnoff, Kofi Siriboe, Gerald Downey, Frances Fisher, Obba Babatunde, Christopher Cousins, Jared Frieder, and Cooper Thornton