Will Ross from the Film Formally podcast joins us on our discussion of Steven Soderberg’s Solaris. Ghost dogs and fake wives a-plenty. If you have any thoughts or questions, please let us know via [email protected] or follow us on Tw

We saw! (Season 3 Announcement)

Jan 4th, 2021 27m 38s

We said we’ll see and well, we did! We saw! We saw that we missed doing this. And we are happy to announce the upcoming third season which will start airing weekly from February 1st and on. In this episode: Why did we come back? What is the pod

We’ll See (Our 50th Episode Spectacular)

Jun 15th, 2020 43m 21s

This is our 50th episode. A cause for joy! An occasion to celebrate! And we’re doing so by announcing our hiatus. After next week’s Off Script, Ron and Bram will take a little time off, to regain some perspective and recollect their thoughts. W

Off script: Outland (with Scout Tafoya)

Jun 8th, 2020 1h 31m

Sean Connery runs around a mining facility on one of Jupiter’s moons, trying to unravel a conspiracy which causes the crew to become suicidal. Outland crawls at an almost contemplative pace to give its viewer all the time to really see these fa

S02E05 – My Boss Doesn’t Even Want To Send E-mails

Jun 1st, 2020 1h 1m

Bram went out of his way and rewrote all the scenes we’ve had so far, whilst adding two more scenes, whilst getting all the Arabic wrong. Luckily, there’s Ron to touch up and rewrite the rewrites which have been rewritten. Loads of fat being st

S02E04 – I told you, I only do highway

May 25th, 2020 55m 51s

A day on the job with Averie, a physical carrier of digital goods. We meet her right-hand Raniya (although only by voice), we meet her parents, and we enter skyscrapers, one thriving and one unfinished. And all the while we have an itching that

Off script: New Rose Hotel (with Kaj van Zoelen)

May 21st, 2020 1h 23m

The second and final adaptation of a William Gibson text was seen by even fewer eyes than the first. The fact that it features Christopher Walken, Willem Defoe and Asia Argento (a cursed threesome) hanging around in beige hotels did not help. R

S02E03 – And All the Bad Guys Look Like Me (with Rami Ismail)

May 18th, 2020 1h 15m

For our third and final brainstorming episode we are joined by Rami Ismail (50% of Vlambeer) to discuss the misrepresentation of the Arabic language, culture and Islamic religion by Western media. Is the Pyramid of Giza actually surrounded by a

S02E02 – A Couple of Solid Sips of Water

May 11th, 2020 41m 34s

A lone whisperbike carries our heroine Averie over the tarmac of a desert highway, a setting in which introduces some advanced water technology. All because Ron went extracurricular on last week’s set-up and gave our film its very first scene.

Off script: Johnny Mnemonic

May 7th, 2020 1h 35m

The very first adaptation of a William Gibson property was highly anticipated. Directed by a visual artist and music video director and adapted by the father of cyberpunk himself, this film could’ve, at the very least, been a singular piece of

S02E01 – Welcome Averie Nash

May 4th, 2020 1h 10m

And so it all starts with a scene that has been floating around in Bram’s head for half a decade. A new screenplay, a new saga. This time, we’re discussing the origins of cyberpunk via William Gibson and Ridley Scott, and how we would like to g

Off script: Michael Clayton

Apr 30th, 2020 1h 57m

Tom Wilkinson goes toe-to-toe with Tilda Swinton, the new head of the fertilizer producing U-North, while George Clooney, the legal team’s fixer, tries to maintain Wilkinson’s cool as well as his own. The 2008 legal drama Michael Clayton is ano

Off script: Paddington

Apr 23rd, 2020 1h 36m

Instead of immediately diving into our next screenplay, we decided we needed a palette cleanser. We’re going off script, if you will. And our very first detour (of many) comes in the shape of a polite bear with an unhealthy craving for marmalad

S01E39 – Lessons From The Screenplay (with Kaj van Zoelen)

Apr 13th, 2020 1h 15m

For this very special episode, our first season finale, we are joined by Dutch film critic Kaj van Zoelen. Together we read the final scene of the film and discuss a season worth of stumbling while sipping on some whiskey. Just like in the old

S01E38 – Kuwait Does Not Have An Extradition Treaty

Apr 6th, 2020 1h 17m

Ron doesn’t enjoy older things. Or not as much as he should, according to Bram. So obviously, we lead with an extensive tangent. In this episode: Winslow takes his magic flight. Over the course of 4 scenes we detail the ex-detective driving, dr

S01E37 – One More and Then I’m Going to Buy a Ukelele

Mar 30th, 2020 1h 3m

Into the digital realm we go! It may sound different because we’re recording remotely, but it’s the same show. And it might even be better. In this episode: Winslow’s retirement takes center stage. Heart-to-heart conversations are shared with L

S01E36 – Return to Paradise

Mar 23rd, 2020 1h 15m

Three times is the charm in this unedited extravaganza! We reread you Ginny’s run to Paradise as well as her arrival, and then take turns in arriving there again twice but from different perspectives. All the while honing in on Brazil. With thi

A Quick Update Regarding the Podcast

Mar 18th, 2020 14m 55s

Due to everything that’s happening in the world right now we decided to not quietly miss a week in our uploading schedule. Instead here’s 15 minutes in which we give a little rundown on how we’re doing and what’s going to happen in the near fut

S01E35 – We’re Now In the Endgame, Again

Mar 9th, 2020 1h 1m

Good news, everybody. The podcast is uncancelled! Wait, was it cancelled? Definitely! But now it’s uncancelled, so you can stop worrying. Ron and Bram go on a big film-hopping tangent before asking themselves the age-old question: and now what?

S01E34 – Casting Call

Mar 3rd, 2020 1h 10m

In this episode we cast our soon-to-be-finished screenplay. A lot of these roles are knocked out of the park, some being prettier than others, but always have a presence or the necessary gravitas. So, if you enjoy our more tangential work, then

S01E33 – Writing Camp Day 3

Feb 25th, 2020 1h 5m

The final day of writing camp brings us a big meet-up at the police station, Winslow being a workaholic, Larkin being a neat-freak and Ginny saving Joe from imminent death. We have a while to go still with a little less than half a screenplay t

S01E32 – Writing Camp Day 2

Feb 17th, 2020 56m 41s

Back at it again. The cards are on a stack now and we’re going through them one-by-one. And so, as dictated by the words on the white wall: Things are seen different(ly). Alban dies in his kitchen, Ginny goes to high school and Larkin gets intr

S01E31 – Writing Camp Day 1

Feb 10th, 2020 1h 34m

Welcome to Writing Camp, in which we’ve locked ourselves up in a boring meeting room for 3 days trying to figure out what went wrong and what could go better. On this first day, we set out to stick flashcards representing all the scenes we’ll h

S01E30 – Draft Zero: The Last Note

Feb 4th, 2020 1h 10m

It took us about 3 hours of podcasting, 2 of which will remain unaired, to figure out where to take our story. Because if our concept is so indebted to the idea of golden blood, why would we fight it? Why not lean into it? And leaning we do. In

S01E29 – Draft Zero: The Age of Evaluation

Jan 21st, 2020 1h 7m

What is this film about? This is a good question to ask yourself when you’re 29 episodes into a podcast in which you’re writing said film. And so we embark on the second half of the second act, inching closer towards that inevitable third. What