Writers Talk

On this week’s episode of 3rd and Fairfax, the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America, the guests are the team of screenwriters behind the epic feature film Dune: Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth. Between them, Spaihts wrote such films as Passengers, and co-wrote Dr. Strange and Prometheus; the film’s director Villeneuve wrote Maelstrom (and got an Oscar nomination for directing Arrival), and among his many credits, Roth won the Oscar for writing Forrest Gump, and has screenwriting Oscar nominations for co-writing A Star is Born (2019), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Munich, and The Insider. And got an Oscar nomination for Best Picture as one of the producers of Mank.