{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Write On: 'Shadow Force' Director\/Co-Writer Joe Carnahan and Co-Writer Leon Chills","description":"\u201cFor me, I don\u2019t know how you could not make [a script] personal. I think drama allows you to hide how personal it is. I think that\u2019s kind of what I like about writing in the genre space. On the outside looking in, it just looks like a big action movie. It doesn\u2019t look like a personal story. But there are personal elements like my mom was a working mom as well. And so that\u2019s why you have Kyra in the movie who has to come back to her son because she\u2019s been working to protect him. That\u2019s a very personal thing\u2026 but you would never assume that it\u2019s a personal story because it\u2019s wrapped up in the action,\u201d says Leon Chills, co-writer of the new film Shadow Force, about writing action from a very personal point of view.  On today\u2019s episode, we talk with director\/co-writer Joe Carnahan and co-writer Leon Chills about the new action flick Shadow Force that puts a family at the center of the action. With a bounty on their heads, Kyra (Kerry Washington) and Isaac (Omar Sy) must go on the run with their young son (Jahleel Kamara) to avoid their former employer, a unit of shadow ops that has been sent to kill them. Carnahan and Chills talk about the challenges of writing action set pieces and the power of giving the story emotional weight. We also discuss trying to push the boundaries of the action genre to invent set pieces that are fresh and inventive, and writing action scenes on the page that are compact and concise.  \u201cAs an older writer and doing it as long as I have, I\u2019ll tell screenwriters, if I see four or five lines of scene description, I\u2019m telling you, do it in two. Do it in one. Let people spend 40 minutes reading your script. No more. You know what I mean? Get through it with that kind of economy. If you\u2019ve ever read M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s Sixth Sense script \u2013 it\u2019s an absolute masterclass in how to do that. Just so sparse and beautiful and pitch perfect the way that things are written,\u201d says Carnahan.    To learn more about action writing and hear more advice, listen to the podcast.  ","author_name":"Write On: A Screenwriting Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.finaldraft.com","html":"