Max Folkman

Script Lock lives!

If we're lucky, someday we'll be able to look back and see that so much of what is wrong in the film (or any) industry right now is the narcissism of a gerontocracy who are old and incurious, but also delusional enough to still think they are the *least* old and incurious living generation.

FREAKON TOMORROW, FREAKS! Come see our talk that we’ll NEVER speak of AGAIN! Don’t even ask!!!

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

RIP sweet prince. May you sploot forever more in the giant cardboard box in the sky 🫡

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

working on something a little different than usual! looking to speak with women of all ages and backgrounds about their life experiences. short questionnaire here, shares very welcome docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.

Needed this reminder today.

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I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

How dare Nintendo put in a great lil slow jam for when you set up the Switch 2, and yet still deny us eShop music

Hello hello! We're back with @blendogames.bsky.social & @lmichet.bsky.social this week to talk earnestness in storytelling, working w/ external writers, when to overexplain things, deranged subreddits, and in this clip, making a comedic immersive sim! scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/bre...

I saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button again last night. Never gets old.

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

The Three States of Employment: - Laid Off - Waiting to be Laid Off - Executive

It's rare that I see an entry-level writing job in games so I wanted to share that Media Molecule is hiring a writer. www.brightnetwork.co.uk/graduate-job... On site in Guildford.

It’s true! We’re looking to add a new writer to the team. (Onsite here in Finland only.)

ICYMI we put out a new GDC Grab Bag episode this week! You can listen to amazing guests like @vincentperea.bsky.social talk about simplification, and how a great entree can be just as memorable as a nine-course meal. scriptlock.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

I've actually used/quoted a line from this on multiple occasions: "We could take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will."

🚨New episode!🚨 Got to talk with a bunch of folks and ask hard-hitting questions like “who’s your favorite person you’ve ever worked with?”

In honor of Val Kilmer, I recommend everyone watch the commentary for Kiss Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, where he spends the entire time name dropping celebrities for a contest on his website

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I do love my chosen profession, but lately

Some great stuff in this 2010 interview with Alex Garland after working on his (so far) only video game (Enslaved: Odyssey to the West) "It's not important for everyone to understand storytelling, but it's important for them to respect it." web.archive.org/web/20101007...

Rewatched The Wrong Trousers last night for the first time in years and would like to retroactively give it the cinematography Oscar for 1993

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Script Lock’s moved over to Bluesky and we’ve got a new episode out! (I promise it wont be another six months before the next one 😎)

Put this quote up on the damn wall of every writers room.

With every passing year I’ve become more convinced that this scene from Burn After Reading is the best thing the Coens have written

How many game studio CEOs make it 30 years with the company they founded? It’s been three years since my time at Insomniac but I still miss his daily AMAs. A genuinely good dude (and a great host on the Game Maker’s Notebook)

In 2009, @raquellaneri.bsky.social got the scoop on David Lynch's top-five sandwiches. Unsurprisingly, it's delightful. substack.com/home/post/p-...

If you live in LA, please read this. Feel free to share. Me and a few friends watched the Coalition For Clean Air webinar last night about toxic ash. There was a lot of important information in there, but it was 2.5 hours long. We summarized it into this doc. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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RIP David Lynch. Everyone has their favorite Lynch-isms, but I keep going back to his raw reaction to watching the ending of It’s a Wonderful Life.

“We’re seeing a way of life disappear, to be replaced with something else—who knows what. There will be rebuilding and regrowth, but what’s gone can never be replaced.” www.rogerebert.com/mzs/whats-go...

A comprehensive list of places you can donate immediate basic needs like clothing, diapers, and food to people that have lost so much in Los Angeles #fire #donate #LosAngeles #LA #eaton #palisades www.kqed.org/news/1202115...

This is the most thorough scientific breakdown I've seen so far of what is and isn't attributable to climate change, political negligence, and bad building practices re: the LA fires: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

We’re all packed up and ready to go, but it sounds like the Sunset Fire might be under control. Guess we’ll be taking shifts sleeping to make sure

For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.

LA will be having potentially *life-threatening* winds today, and yet there are still leaf blowers out this morning.