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123 | Dustin Lance Black (Milk, Under the Banner of Heaven) On Nuanced Screenwriting and Avoiding Cliches

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Is There a Gut Check?

Heaven started as a feature film and it was the first drafts for like 200 pages. Brian Grager who called me up after he'd set it aside for years and said, Hey, the mini series is a thing again. And I was like, yes, then I could actually do it. But even then I ran out of time.

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