BPS 232: Where Writer's Go Wrong with ACTION Screenplays with Robert McKee

Robert McKee, A Fulbright Scholar, is the most sought after
screenwriting lecturer around the globe. He has dedicated the last
30 years to educating and mentoring screenwriters, novelists,
playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors
internationally. Those who have learned from McKee have called him
"the Aristotle of our time" because of his insight into the
substance, structure, style, and principles of the grand art of
story.

Peter Jackson (writer/director of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy,
The Hobbit) has lauded him as "The Guru of Gurus." For the writers
of Pixar (creators of Toy Story 1, 2, & 3, Finding Nemo),
McKee's Story Seminar is a rite of passage. Emmy Award-Winner Brian
Cox also portrayed McKee in the Oscar-nominated film
Adaptation.

McKee's former students include over 60 Academy Award Winners, 200
Academy Award Nominees, 200 Emmy Award Winners, 1000 Emmy Award
Nominees, 100 WGA (Writers Guild of America) Award Winners, 250 WGA
Award Nominees, and 50 DGA (Directors Guild of America) Award
Winners, 100 DGA Award Nominees.

A winner and nominee of BAFTA for his popular Channel Four series
Reel Secrets, McKee also wrote and hosted 12 episodes of BBC's
Filmworks series. He was profiled by Bob Simon of 60 Minutes for
CBS news.

McKee's articles on Story have also appeared in hundreds of
newspapers and magazines around the world including Harvard
Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The New
Yorker Magazine, Swiss Business Magazine, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, CBS
Morning News, BBC, Channel 4 in UK, RAI (Italy), CBN Weekly News
& Morning Glory (China), MBC TV, KBS & Arirang TV, Korea
Times (South Korea), Kiev Weekly, Kultura Moscow, all major TV,
Radio and/or newspapers of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany, France, India, Israel, Mexico,
New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Singapore, South Africa,
Sweden, and Switzerland and given seminars in all of the above
countries.

Since 1984, more than 100,000 students have taken McKee's courses
at various cities around the world: Los Angeles, New York, London,
Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco, Helsinki, Oslo,
Munich, Tel Aviv, Auckland, Singapore, Madrid, Beijing, Shanghai,
Barcelona, Lisbon, Malaga, Hamburg, Berlin, Johannesburg, Rome,
Stockholm, São Paulo, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Beijing,
Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Seoul, Istanbul, Hyderabad,
Mexico City and many cities regularly.

McKee continues to be a project consultant to major film and
television production companies such as 20th Century Fox, Disney,
Paramount, & MTV. In addition, Pixar, ABC, BBC, Disney,
Miramax, PBS, Nickelodeon, Paramount, GLOBOSAT, MNET and other
international TV and Film companies regularly send their entire
creative and writing staffs to his lectures.

His new book is Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and
Game.

ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can
successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but
wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host
of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story
lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality
by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges,
and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of
plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity.

Topics include:

Understanding the Four Core Elements of Action
Creating the Action Cast
Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action
The Action Macguffin
Action Set Pieces
The Sixteen Action Subgenres

A must-add to the McKee storytelling library, ACTION illustrates
the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by
referencing the most popular action movies of our time
including: Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga, Dark
Knight, The Matrix, and Avengers: Endgame.

Also join Robert McKee's Legendary STORY Seminar LIVE in Los
Angeles, New York & London

In an intense 3 days, Robert McKee teaches the substance,
structure, style and principles of Story. Learn how to apply
classical story design – the kind that has resulted in masterpieces
of all kinds – to your own cinematic, theatrical or literary
premise.

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Enjoy my conversation with Robert McKee.

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