126 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Co-Writer Joe Robert Cole: Letting Emotions Guide Our Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Strike Ends and I'm Like Oh Yeah There's a Roadie Movie
"I always wanted to write big movies like the movies I love are like character driven on their on a big palette. So then I was like I had nothing and then the strike ended and during the strike I wrote this like Chinatown cop movie takes place in LA and has action all stuff," he said. "Nate Moore read it at Marvel after the strike and asked me to come and sit down with him and I feel like he was the first black male executive I had ever met" He went on to pitch four or five times up to Kevin Smith, who is now supervising OJ's episode of People vs. OJ.
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