Franklin Leonard: How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
How does Hollywood choose what stories get told on-screen? Too often, it's groupthink informed by a narrow set of ideas about what sells at the box office. As a producer, Franklin Leonard saw too many great screenplays never get made because they didn't fit the mold. So he started the Black List, an anonymous email that shared his favorite scree...
How to Be a Better Human: How to challenge conventional wisdom -- and change any industry
Do you think Hollywood needs to change? How about your own industry? It's difficult to get decision makers to step outside of the tried-and-true and attempt something new. In this episode, host Chris Duffy sits down with Franklin Leonard -- founder and CEO of the Black List, a company that elevates great screenplays and the writers who create th...
Franklin Leonard: How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
"Female-driven action movies don't work." "Films about black people don't sell overseas." This is what many film-industry professionals, despite their varied personal preferences, long believed to be the hard truths informing what movies should get made. In 2005, speaker Franklin Leonard founded The Black List as a way to bring attention to Holl...