How Do You Script Round-Up: September 25 2025
KPop Demon Hunters + Day of the Jackal + Weapons Prequel + TV Writers Try New AI
In this week’s edition of How Do You Script, we look at:
KPop Demon Hunters creator Maggie Kang talking about her mega-successful hit, updates on the writers’ room of the Day of the Jackal series, and Nia DaCosta’s one request for 28 Years Later sequel.
Let’s go!
KPop Demon Hunters creator Maggie Kang shares her creative process and talks about the animated hit taking the world and charts by storm.
Day of the Jackal series creator Ronan Bennett steps back from writing duties and David Harrower (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth) takes over as lead writer.
Nia DaCosta shares the one request that she made when Alex Garland handed in the script for the upcoming 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple: “more infected”.
Oh, Hi! filmmaker Sophie Brooks talks about her latest film and her journey to Sundance.
Seven basic plots of film storytelling, and why you should know them.
Original Final Destination (2000) creators James Wong, Jeffrey Reddick, and Glen Morgan talk about how an unused spec script for The X-Files spawned an entire franchise.
Weapons’ helmer Zach Cregger confirms that he and Warner Bros. are in talks for Aunt Gladys prequel movie: “There’s a story and I’m pretty excited about it.”
The Hollywood Reporter asks TV writers to test Fable Studio’s buzzy new AI platform where you can craft short animated scenes for free after typing in a dialogue text prompt and choosing from a menu of preset characters, actions and settings. (Spoiler: Writer-producers aren’t fearing for their livelihoods just yet.)
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