Thank you Scriptcake and Shane. I listened to this while going for a walk and- I swear, Shane sounds exactly like Billy Friedkin sometimes. A lot of times Wonder if they’re from the same hood?

I've had this idea for a feature screenplay for about 30 years. I finally started writing it, and so far, it has about 50 pages. Hoping to get about 100. Sure, it would be nice if it could make me some money. But I just want people to see what I see in my head. That is all I care about.

Loved the interview and all but the one movie I wanted to hear about above all else was What About Bob? and you skipped right over it for Medecine Man.

Great interview! I love Brian's approach to screenwriting and I agree with just about everything he said. I've always thought that story comes first.

The best writer in Hollywood..bar none!

Thank you for sharing this interview. It was great hearing Tom's story and work process.

Great episode!!!! Love all the practical advice.

I loved Last Action Hero. It had a magical quality about it.

One of my all time favorite writers. Shane knows the importance of a good set-up.

This was amazing. Can't believe I haven't seen this channel yet. Thank you so much for getting in touch with Shane. He's one of the best and a Pittsburgh boy. I'd love to see more videos like this. I'd especially love to see him and others talk about the day to day of writing and how they go about it until the script is ready to shoot.

Great interview!

Remaking Last Action Hero with The Rock, if done right, can actually be really good! It's the one action movie where he can really go ham and it'll feel appropriate

That was amazing, Thank you!

That was entirely awesome :)

This is fantastic.

Shane Black's movies rules the 80s and 90s! More to come I hope!

The original movie was about Blacks and Latinos with superior Technology fighting the U. S... Set in Central America , the alien predator looks like a butch black female. Soviets were in Central America, if you apply Cuban politics to a country like Brazil, Mexico or Argentina you have a new Soviet Union. Cuba is a tiny island with no resources easy to blockade. Foreign politics and technology would spread. That was the nightmare. Shanes movie, autisticlike kid and his dad find a suit, and use little predators to kill big predators was idiotic. The whole movie, of the Other with superior Technology was a nightmare to w hite su pre Macy, his movie destroys the nightmare using a pe asant and his son

This was so fun to listen to. Also, some great takes on how to be a writer are said. And Black has being behind some of my favorite movies (yes, Last Action Hero; I am surprised he downplayed his involvement in that one). I wish they shot his original script for The Last Boy Scout, if you read it, it would have been one of the greatest action movies ever, even how dark and gritty it was. Outrageous, but marvelous stuff. He messed up 2018 Predator, but I will pretend there are only two of them made. But his scripts perfectly encapsulated the bliss feeling if you are an older boy and some grown-up man alike, watching his movies.

About the thumbnail... "Iron Man 3"? Jeez. =__= Try The Nice Guys instead...

Great video!

Shane Black was responsible for my childhood and all its great memories, a group of us became amateur film makers because of his films. Huge thanks for 'Long kiss goodnight'

Fantastic conversation and insight into this man's process, loved every second

I love I'm a fraud!

Double Mensch

I have always loved the last action hero! Big Mr. Black fan.

This is awesome

i fuckin love this guy

Shorts of this interview would blow up.

This was fantastic and covered so many ideas in such a short time. Some real gems for writing inspiration.

Shane Black is the master

Wow… “Replacing fear with problem solving. And knowing not to panic during the fear. And just keep going.” … I can do relate. Thank you, Shane.

Solid interview. Shane Black is the man. The project he is working on sounds amazing. A new Parker film taken from the source material the way he describes and made into a film from him and his collaborators would be very cool. I had always hoped his script for the Destroyer series (A new Remo Williams story) to be made, possibly one of the great what if's of moviedom.

I need to start reading again. I’m an embarrassment:)

I'd watch a Shane Black Nightmare On Elm St in a heartbeat.

This was fantastic. I could listen to Shane talk about books, movies, and writing all day long. And Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang might be the most overlooked comedy of the 2000s.

I admire Mr. Black so much because years ago I wrote him and he actually wrote me back!!! Thank you for this excellent Master Class: Like! Like! Like!

Great interview! Whenever I've been stuck on a screenplay, most of the time the solutions have come to me when I'm away from the computer.

Shane Black is Tarantino without the pretension or lack of narrative discipline

When they made Die Hard with a Vengeance I swear that wasn’t John McClane Bruce was playing, that was Joe Hallenbeck The Last Boy Scout all the way.

“Leo the fart is gonna pass gas one last time.”

I think when you are at your best as a screenwriter or filmmaker in general, you are probably invisible to the general audience. I was floored to find out after I watched the Last Boy Scout who the writer was and what else he had done. I have mentioned it often enough to a few of my friends, and it just seems to go over their heads. It was like when I discovered as a writer, you could go to a Star Trek convention and talk with the people that actually write the dialog and create the stories. There's hardly anyone asking for their autographs, but you have to wait and hour to get one of the stars' signatures...

Great Interview. Thanks guys.

How is nobody watching this?! What a legend!