John and Craig welcome back Liz Hannah to talk about her upcoming Netflix movie, All the Bright Places, and Hollywood’s often-frustrating reliance on IP. Particularly with non-fiction stories, has Hollywood warped journalistic ambitions?

All of which serves as setup for another round of How Would This Be a Movie? (00:41:54), where we look at the Jeff Bezos phone hack, Carlos Ghosn, and a romantic political showdown.

In our bonus segment for premium members (01:10:06), we discuss what is and is not okay to do with physical books, and situations where we’re willing to trade pixels for print.

Links:

• Liz Hannah on Twitter and IMDb, and Scriptnotes episodes 242 and 359
• The 2020 WGA Award nominees and winners
• Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows will be having a Launch Event: February 9, 2pm at Chevalier’s on Larchmont
• Scriptnotes, Episode 434 in which we discuss Knives Out
• MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson files for Chapter 7 and stock falls to zero, on MarketWatch
• All the Bright Places comes to Netflix on February 28
• They Made a Movie Out of It by James Pogue
• John Gruber on the Jeff Bezos phone hack
• The New York Times on ghosn-escape.html"> Carlos Ghosn’s escape and ghosn-movie.html"> the Hollywood connection
• ‘Like a bad romcom’: couple run against each other in Irish election from The Guardian
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• Superieur Electrolytes
• Star Battle puzzles
• Wit’s End on Amazon
• John August on Twitter
• Craig Mazin on Twitter
• John on Instagram
• Outro by Lachlan Marks (send us yours!)
• Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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