Joe: I’m the Product Manager at Final Draft. John: And Joe Jarvis, what is your official title? So, like I always say, those who can’t do make software. Marc: I wanted to be you two guys and it led me to this. Marc with a C, Madnick, who is the co-founder and CEO of Final Draft. So the voices you’re hearing are Marc Madnick. John: Three weeks ago we have Final Draft 9.

John: And this last year, just this month.

John: And then Final Draft 8 which was a bigger revision. Marc: Boy, you know this better than I do. John: So, that was my first experience with it. And they were strange to do, but I could actually do them then, so it was great. So, Final Draft was just an amazing godsend that I could do these things that were so difficult to do before. And you can write a script obviously in a normal word processor, but it’s a giant pain in the ass, and revisions are a giant pain in the ass. And before then I’d written Go just in Microsoft Word. John: But I remember I think I bought it at the Writer’s Store, which is a physical place at that point. Marc: Actually, I think versions one and two were about $349 we started out selling. Which was a lot more money back then because of inflation. And I remember buying it, I think it was in 2000, and it was like $245 which was like a lot – $249. So, my first experience with Final Draft was Final Draft 5. John: We were just talking sort of our history with Final Draft. We’ll talk about the Tarantino script, the WGA negotiations, we’ll answer some listener questions. John: I have a hunch, because we already recorded it, that you will ask some pointed questions. And I think it’s very cool that that they came on the show knowing perfectly well that this wasn’t going to be a softball interview. And we are, I have to say, I’m very excited to talk to them. They’re going to talk to us about Final Draft 9 and our interactions with Final Draft 9.Ĭraig: And we’ve had some. And Joe Jarvis, who is the product manager. We have Marc Madnick, who is the CEO and co-founder of Final Draft. Today on the podcast we have two special guests. I’m going to get to meet her anyway because she’s going to be a neighbor of mine soon.Ĭraig: We like to call it the privileged place where people like Jennifer Lee choose to live. And Jennifer Lee was terrific to come on the show. John: It’s really pretty clear that Aline wants to take your place, but she was fantastic as a guest host.Ĭraig: She did a great job. I was on my way to the podcast and my car was hit from behind.Ĭraig: When I come to I’m in Aline Brosh McKenna’s basement,, Misery style. John: Now, Craig, do you have memory of what happened to you last week? What actually happened?Ĭraig: Uh…it was bad. Here we are, face-to-face, a couple of silver spoons.

John: And this is Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.Ĭraig: Yes. The original post for this episode can be found here.

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