{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Andrew Dodge","description":"This episode of Zack's Film Talks at SDSU is hosted by Libsyn. My guest is Andrew Dodge, who wrote Bad Words, the spelling bee movie starring Jason Bateman, which Bateman also directed. Andrew worked as a story editor at Columbia Pictures for a decade and studied at the University of Southern California. In this episode, Andrew talks about: getting bad grades in high school what it was like to hear his words coming out of Jason Bateman\u2019s mouth the \u201cfirst period\u201d\/ketchup scene in Bad Words how many projects he juggles at once an R-rated comedy about a leprechaun he\u2019s writing for Peter Dinklage \u2026and looking forward to seeing LeBron James in Space Jam 2, a project he\u2019s attached to as writer\u2014an official nonofficial introduction is floating around online, but we may have to wait a while for the movie. For now, here\u2019s Quad City DJ\u2019s theme song from the original. Andrew gives specific, practical advice for screenwriters starting out. (One montage per film is enough!) And keep writing, he says. \u201cYou\u2019re always going to get better if you\u2019re always writing. If you\u2019re talking about writing, you\u2019re not going to get better. If you are writing, you\u2019re going to get better.\u201d Episode edited by Chris Burke. ","author_name":"Zack's Film Talks at SDSU","author_url":"http:\/\/zacksfilmtalksatsdsu.libsyn.com\/website","html":"