Armchair Expert episode 705

Jonah Nolan (director & screenwriter)

Jonah Nolan (Fallout, Westworld, The Dark Knight) is a screenwriter, director, and producer. Jonah joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he doesn't have a British accent like his brother, what he learned working on farm, and why he wrote his first script about amnesia. Jonah and Dax talk about how much research he does when taking on a project, how the perception of doing television has changed, and why humanizing the subject matter is so important in scriptwriting. Jonah explains how he finds himself crying more as a parent, how he approached adapting a video game to TV, and why biopics are so hard to make.

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Jonah Nolan (Fallout, Westworld, The Dark Knight) is a screenwriter, director, and producer. Jonah joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he doesn't have a British accent like his brother, what he learned working on farm, and why he wrote his first script about amnesia. Jonah and Dax talk about how much research he does when taking on a project, how the perception of doing television has changed, and why humanizing the subject matter is so important in scriptwriting. Jonah explains how he finds himself crying more as a parent, how he approached adapting a video game to TV, and why biopics are so hard to make.

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  1. 0:00welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on Expert I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica padman this was
  2. 1:06:02been written by adbusters it's so political it has such a point of view and I started to notice in the late
  3. 2:14:26there's other shopping to do go to Sephora yeah okay well have a bless it's such a good movie I'm so excited for you
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