2018 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule

In the world of television, writers’ rooms are unavoidable. But can these same environments revitalize feature film franchises? Recently, film studios have been organizing rooms of high-profile screenwriters to rethink the direction of their rich mythologies. Though these rooms have the promise to create new, diverse directions and spin-offs, they also come with many questions about who receives the film’s limited credits and how writers get paid for their ideas. Join Christina Hodson and Nicole Perlman, to hear their first-hand perspectives on the pros and cons of franchise writers’ rooms and predictions on whether this is a trend that will last.