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If You Can't Answer This One Question Your Script Will Be Rejected - Corey Mandell

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Corey Mandell is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has written projects for Ridley Scott, Wolfgang Petersen, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Warner Brothers, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Family, Working Title, Paramount, Live Planet, Beacon Films, Touchstone, Trilogy, Radiant and Walt Disney Pictures.

Corey teaches screenwriting via private online classes using video conferencing to allow participants to see and hear each other in real time. His highly popular classes draw students from across the US, Europe and Australia.

His students have gone on to sell or option scripts to Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Disney, Fox, Fox 2000, MGM, Universal, USA Network and Lifetime. Others have gained admission to the USC Graduate Screenwriting Program, the AFI Conservatory Screenwriting Program and Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.

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20 Comments

@filmcourage Creator 2 years ago Pinned

Here is our full interview with Corey - https://youtu.be/CWfcjN8ajHg

@simonburton992 2 years ago

My various piles of rubble are looking very embarrassing right now. On the other hand, I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this.

@OlgaKuznetsova 1 year ago

This is such a good point and I will say, some of the best choices that I've made as a screenwriter were to delete a favorite scene because it did not fit the theme/point of the story. And by deleting this scene, it was like opening up a whole blockage that then clears the path for the rest of the story. Don't be afraid to delete those scenes, even if you love them.

@leapfandler1608 2 years ago

This is literally the best advice EVER when it comes to screenplays!!! THANK YOU for this!

@arzabael 2 years ago

I love lessons like this. Technically my story is about supernatural occultism but the one thing my story is truly about, is the internal process one goes through when they stop needing the acknowledgment of others to know who they are.

@eps4560 4 months ago

Thinking about how someone once answered this question with "Cats introduce themselves until one is chosen to die" ....and it was a massive hit.

@loggrad9842 5 months ago

Somebody get this guy a glass of water.

Seriously though, really good information, I'll take it to heart.

@Submersed24 6 months ago

It's funny how interesting so many screenwriters are to listen to

@susand9494 2 years ago

Corey is the absolute BEST at explaining through story.

@AdonisMediaProductions 2 years ago

I'm not surprised he got the shot to work with Ridley Scott, he's very eloquent and honestly every word is used with such a precision that no point did my mind even wander for a moment.

@skyshorrchannel3474 2 years ago

Wow, the best, clearest example of digging deeper than I have ever heard.
In the space of 2 minutes I understood a 10 part script I have spent a decade upon.

@ThePantherAndTheSphinx 1 year ago

5:49 - 📝📝📝 TIMESTAMP - Paddy Chayefsky took a YEAR to figure out what Network was about... -- "HOW DO YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU LIVE IN A SOCIETY THAT DOESN'T VALUE HUMAN LIFE? " 🎬🎞🎥📺

@defiverr4697 1 year ago

The premise, is the term for 'what's it about?' Premise is from Aristotle and its fundamental to Ny story telling.

@GhibliNova 2 years ago (edited)

His class is freaking stellar, I highly recommend. My degree emphasis is in theater and of course we went into detail of Stanislavski, and I genuinely feel that what Stanislavski did for acting is what Corey is doing with screenwriting. 'The Method' writers are about to take over Hollywood. Chances are, not me 😂 but some of my classmates were incredible and they only gotten better with the method.

@ckrug32 2 years ago

Thank you for being so generous, Corey. You have a gift for distilling complex concepts into easily digestible examples and ideas; the mark of any great teacher and writer.

Your metaphor about the fragmented house on the island is a great image that I will continue to refer back to when I'm trying to zero in on my story and what it's REALLY (singularly) about.

@copony23 2 years ago

This channel is a goldmine ❤

@apocalypse369 2 years ago

Who needs film school when you got this gift of a channel, Thank you for the great content ❤

@TheEvilFungi 2 years ago

I took corey's classes. They're really good. He tells that Ridely scott story a LOT!

@terryh1451 7 months ago

So elusive yet so profound. I once told a colleague she should see Syriana and she responded that she didn’t watch political movies. I told her it was about a “merger.” We’re both attorneys. She eventually saw it and loved it.

@seen921 2 years ago

Love how he distills everything from how it all comes together as a writer to his learning how the processes work— he’s so honest and fun to listen to