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Type: Movie Reviews – Profanity (Audio)
Studio Rejects is a weekly podcast from Will Rogers and Bobby Koester. Every Wednesday we act out a famous movie script like a radio play. The catch is that we only read unfinished drafts or scripts that were rejects (such as the movie that would have followed George Clooney’s Batman & Robin…yikes…)!
Being that we are aspiring writers, we are particularly in love with the art of writing, and Studio Rejects is our love letter to the craft, as well as a fun way to examine movies as they could have been!
We began podcasting with our flagship comedy show Will and Bobby Know Everything and launched Studio Rejects a year later (and most recently Book Club Shmook Club). We really enjoyed podcasting, and wanted to have a place for our own old scripts to get the spotlight. Between film scripts, we always dedicate an episode to a script of our own, giving our weirdest, messiest works a place to receive attention. It’s a lot of fun, and we sincerely hope you enjoy it, especially as we have just given the show a slight facelift, with our latest episode – the finale of 1998’s Godzilla (2nd draft of course)!
One of our more interesting series of shows was when we read the original concept for Prometheus, the kind of/sort of prequel to Ridley Scott’s Alien. The original film was meant to feature the classic xenomorph aliens, but when Damon Lindelof came on board for a re-write, he specifically removed the familiar monsters in favor of creating the strange new ones we saw in the finished movie. In reading this script, we got to catch a glimpse of the movie that almost was, and while in many ways it was superior for utilizing familiar creatures, it had it’s own issues.
Back when Bobby and I began writing together, we wrote many original scripts. Some funny, some dramatic, all of them I still think have their merits. But we quickly learned that a good way to display your writing abilities to potential agents is to write what they call a spec script, which is essentially a script of an existing TV show. This displays your ability to adapt your writing style to an established property and lets agents know how versatile you can be. We picked Arrested Development, and in my opinion we did a decent job! This was back before Season 4 was announced, let alone before it was released, so our show is set after the original final episode. We fully produced this show with music from the show, but it’s ultimately up to you to say how we did. Check it out!
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