About this episode

The episode explores a key narrative technique that underpins successful science fiction franchises and the lack of awareness about it among Hollywood screenwriters.

There is a single narrative technique that connects almost every multi-billion dollar science fiction franchise ever made. It is the invisible engine powering the most successful stories of the last century. And yet, if you ask ten working Hollywood screenwriters what it is, nine of them will give you a blank stare—and the tenth willContinue reading "You don’t understand science fiction"

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Host: Damien Walter

Topics covered

• narrative technique
• science fiction
• Hollywood screenwriters
• storytelling
• franchises

Keywords

• science fiction
• narrative technique
• Hollywood
• screenwriters
• storytelling

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