How Do You Script Round-Up: Zach Cregger On Weapons, James Gunn Writing Process, and The Naked Gun Revives Spoof Comedies?

The many influences of Weapons + How James Gunn wrote Superman + 28 Years Later and William Shakespeare?

In this week’s edition of How Do You Script, we look at:

James Gunn’s unorthodox writing process, The Naked Gun and spoof comedies, how Zach Cregger wrote Weapons, and more.

Let’s go!

• James Gunn describes how he designs his writing process to keep his creative juices flowing when writing Superman.

• Screenwriters Dan Gregor and Doug Mand talk about rebooting The Naked Gun with producer Seth McFarlane and writer/director Akiva Schaffer and making spoof comedies work in 2025 (bonus: Scary Movie reboot now in the works!)

• Bryan Young explores the surprising connection between Alex Garland’s screenplay for 28 Years Later and William Shakespeare’s Henry V.

• Zach Cregger talks about how the structure of Weapons influenced by Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, writing the script without knowing where the story would take him, and the personal connections to the horror elements.

• Creative executives complain about the most common screenplay writing mistakes they find and how writers can avoid making them.

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