John and Greta Gerwig (Barbie, Little Women and Lady Bird) discuss adaptation, ambition and authorship. With the screenplay in front of them, they look at specific scenes in Little Women and explore how its non-linear timeline changed how the movie works.

We also answer listener questions on writing for the page and starting a family as an aspiring writer.

In our bonus segment for premium members, Craig shares what it was like winning a Golden Globe for Chernobyl.

Links:

• The Original Episode: 433 – The One with Greta Gerwig
• Follow along with the Little Women script in Weekend Read 2
• Little Women Script
• Greta Gerwig
• Hollywood Assistants Are Fed Up by Rachel Abrams for the New York Times
• Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
• New York in Color Jigsaw Puzzle
• Behave by Robert Sapolsky
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• Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
• John August on Threads, Instagram and Twitter
• John on Mastodon
• Outro by Jemma Moran (send us yours!)
• This episode was originally produced by Megana Rao. Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and is edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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