Nate Sala is one of my favorite interviewers.
This is his podcast Wise Disciple.
He asks me about my new book Moses: Against the Gods of Egypt, Nephilim and Watchers.
As well as my experience in Hollywood. He give questions no one else does.
Nate Sala is one of my favorite interviewers.
This is his podcast Wise Disciple.
He asks me about my new book Moses: Against the Gods of Egypt, Nephilim and Watchers.
As well as my experience in Hollywood. He give questions no one else does.
I did this detailed podcast with Chris Mohr, a fellow storytelling professional about Pandemic Movies.
There are 3 parts. I promise it’s all fascinating, if you love movies, and especially pandemic movies, like viruses and zombie apocalypses.
Listen to the first episode here.
But it will also show you a playlist for the next two episodes.
Here are the topics:
Episode 1: Pandemic Movies: Viruses, Achoo!
00:00 Intro to Brian and Chris
09:45 Pandemic Movies and God
16:53 Contagion
42:50 Outbreak
50:53 Flu
63:00 Carriers
Episode 2: Pandemic Movies: The Zombie Apocalypse Part 1
00:00 Intro
03:30 Horror genre
18:00 Zombie genre
39:20 Night of the Living Dead
56:00 28 Days Later
68:00 Twilight Zone
77:00 28 Weeks Later
Episode 3: Pandemic Movies: The Zombie Apocalypse Part 2
00:00 Intro Horror
04:10 I am Legend Novel
05:40 The Last Man on Earth
12:50 The Omega Man
26:10 I Am Legend
53:20 Race in Movies
60:00 The Walking Dead
77:00 Writers controlling their writing
80:20 Walking Dead part 2
I had a great interview with Clark Weidner on the issue of Hollywood worldviews and how they affect us.
A little about my own journey of underrtanding as well.
This is a great summary of very important issues for Christians who love movies and TV.
Read the script. Imagine the movie.
Screenplays as Literature Series are movie scripts published for readers to enjoy concise storytelling with a twist.
Scripts are blueprints for producing films. Longer than a short story. Shorter than a novel.
You’ll learn how to read a script so you can watch the movie in your mind as you read the story on the page.
I have 12 plus books in this series, in many genres like Historical Epics, Fantasy, Thrillers, Crime Detective and even a family time traveling comedy!
I have read screenplays for many years because I am a screenwriter. But I realized that you don’t have to be a screenwriter to enjoy the power of a screenplay.
It’s more concise and economic storytelling, so it moves at a fast pace.
It paints in a broader brush than a scene in a novel, but it captures depth of character through dialogue and actions like no other medium of writing.
Every word in a screenplay counts and has meaning. So they can actually be quite deep while being shorter reads.
If you haven’t read a screenplay (or if you have), try one of your favorite genres in the Screenplays as Literature Series.
You might find a new kind of storytelling that is different from short stories or long novels, but in a fascinating fresh new way!
I was on this podcast with Thomas Umstattd Jr. An intelligent well-read host. Very good interview.
We talked about what constitutes a Christian worldview in a story and how to write it so you aren’t preachy or corny.
Fresh material you haven’t heard before.
I was on the Bee again with the most excellent Ethan Nicolle and the most disturbing Kyle Mann.
We talk about epic films (Braveheart, The Patriot, Ben Hur) where individuals are willing to live and die for transcendent values set in all-encompassing civilization-shaking settings, and a lot of people get stabbed. We also talk about the secular-sacred divide in films and the genre of “Christian” movies. Spoiler: Not all Christian movies are crap.
No, it’s not a joke.
Really.
God loves horror.
Listen to this funny yet informative episode where I talk to funny guys Ethan Nicolle and Kyle Mann about the morality of horror movies.
It’s not quite that simple. But there is much profundity in this discussion about our culture and superheroes.
Nate is one of my all-time favorite podcast hosts. This was an engrossing discussion.
Okay, I like the co-host Gene Gosewher too.
I talk alot so if you like to listen to me, you will love this podcast. If you hate the sound of my voice and my thoughts, then this will drive you up a wall.
This was a different interview than most I’ve had.
Seth McVey from Apolo-Neering asks me to give my testimony about how I became a Christian. Then we talk about Hollywood and whether or not it is controlled by dark occultic forces and how a Christian worldview can make it in that dark world.
YouTube took the video down, so here is the audio:
I was interviewed for this article on Horror and the Bible for the Christian magazine, Creative Motion
Check out the free online version here.
Look for the article, “Does Horror Genre Accomplish Biblical Goals?”
You’ll enjoy it and it will give you some biblical guidelines on how to understand this scary genre called “horror.”